George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC (17 January 1709 – 24 August 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.

Contents

• 1 Background and education
• 2 Political career
• 3 Patron of the arts
• 4 Dialogue with Gilbert West
• 5 Family
• 6 Notes
• 7 References
• 8 External links

Background and education

Lord Lyttelton was the son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, by his wife Christian, daughter of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (January 17, 1709 – August 24, 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Baronet between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.

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• For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
  • Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus.

• Women, like princes, find few real friends.
  • Advice to a Lady.

• What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
  • Advice to a Lady.

• The lover in the husband may be lost.
  • Advice to a Lady.

• How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
  • An Irregular Ode.

• None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.
  • Epigram.

• Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.
  • Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country.

• Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.
  • Song.

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