Arthur Lyttelton

Who was Arthur Lyttelton?

Arthur Temple Lyttelton MA DD was an Anglican Bishop in the late 19th and early 20th century. After studying at Eton College and Cambridge University, he was ordained as a priest in 1877, and was a curate at St Mary's in Reading. After a short time as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford, he became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He later served as vicar in Eccles, before being appointed as the third Suffragan Bishop of Southampton. He gave and published a number of lectures relating to his faith, and was the Hulsean Lecturer in 1891. He was also one of eleven members of the Lyttelton family to play first-class cricket.