Constituency : Worcestershire East 1868-74
Charles won the by-election after Frederick Gough-Calthorpe became a peer. He was the last Liberal MP elected under the 1832-68 franchise.
Charles was the son and heir of Baron Lyttelton. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is probably best remembered as part of a cricketing dynasty. He was also part of the committee that standardised the rules of lawn tennis.
In 1873 Charles moved the Queen's Speech with what turned out to be his last parliamentary speech.
Charles succeeded his father to the barony in 1876 and then succeeded a distant relative to become Viscount Cobham in 1889.
He died in 1922 aged 79. He was the grandfather of the jazz musician, Humphrey Lyttelton.
As noted above this concludes our look at the by-election victors of 1866-8. We now move on to the liberal victors in the 1868 election.
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