LORD LYTTELTON.

GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, fourth Lord Lyttelton, Baron of Frankley in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baron Westcote in the Peerage of Ireland, a Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, and High Steward of Bewdley, M.A., F.R.S., LL.D., is the son of William Henry, third Lord Lyttelton, by Lady Sarah Spencer (eldest daughter of George John, second Earl Spencer), who, as the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, will be remembered as having held the important office of Governess to the Royal children. His Lordship was born March 31st, 1817. After having greatly distinguished himself at Eton, where he gained the Newcastle Scholarship, Lord Lyttelton proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in the highest classical honours, bearing off one of the Chancellor's Medals in 1838.

On the 25th of July, in the following year, Lord Lyttelton married Mary, the second daughter of the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., of Hawarden, whose sister Catherine was married in the same year to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. Such a connection between two men of habits of thought and acquirements so similar, could scarcely fail to be congenial on both sides, and we accordingly find it gracefully recorded in a few simple

lines

"Ex voto communi:

In Memoriam

Duplicum Nuptiarum.

VIII Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX."

prefixed to a volume of Poems, chiefly translations of classic English authors, into Greek and Latin, published jointly by Lord

Lyttelton and Mr. Gladstone in 1861. A touching interest is given to this record by the bereavement sustained by Lord Lyttelton in the loss of his wife on the 17th of August, 1857.

By this lady Lord Lyttelton has a large family. One of the daughters, the Honourable Lucy Caroline (married in 1864 to Lord Frederick Cavendish, second son of the Duke of Devonshire), was for some time Maid of Honour to the Queen; and for one of his sons, the Honourable Albert Victor, born in 1844, her Majesty herself stood sponsor.

In the year 1846, Lord Lyttelton accepted office as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies: this post he held for a short time only, though long enough, it would seem, to have acquired that interest in and practical acquaintance with colonial affairs, which has enabled him out of office to render such signal services to our colonial system in the various questions, especially that of Emigration, which have engaged the attention of Parliament and the public in reference to it since that time. Notwithstanding the inducements which his personal connections and experience might seem to have afforded, Lord Lyttelton has shown no desire to embarrass himself further with the cares and profits of political

office.

A field of less obtrusive public usefulness for men of leisure and capacity has however been growing up amongst us of late years, to an extent which we are only beginning to appreciate, through the medium of the various voluntary associations which have arisen for the promotion of objects of social and benevolent science. Involving in those actively engaged in their direction all the qualities of administrative capacity, tact, and industry, which are in demand in the public administration of the affairs of the country, this sphere of labour may perhaps be regarded in some sort as its social and moral administration, and is indeed solely or mainly distinguishable from its prototype, by being unprovided with the attributes of pay and patronage. In this field of work, which, if it be indeed better to give than to receive, is not the least honourable of the two, Lord Lyttelton has found abundant and congenial occupation; and in it his services, more especially in the cause of Emigration and Education (which in fact lie at the root of all the most important of the social problems we are now sceking to solve), have been unsparingly rendered.

In the year 1847 an attempt was made, through the medium