SCH HM EL
Reference code
SCH HM EL
Title
Papers of Edward Lyttelton, Head Master 1905 - 1916
Level
Sub-fonds
Administrative / Biographical history
7th son of 4th Lord Lyttelton, Edward Lyttelton (1855-1942) was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. A notable cricketer, he played for both school and university. In 1880 he went as an assistant master to Wellington, moving to Eton in 1882 and to Haileybury as headmaster in 1890. Returning to Eton as Head Master in 1905, he had to deal with many problems, notably the relations between classical and non-classical masters, but he lacked the organisational skills of his predecessor Dr Warre, freely confessing that financial matters bored him. In March 1915 he preached a sermon at St Margaret's Westminster which was felt to be pro-German, thus unleashing a storm of protest; the boys offered support, saying they knew his patriotism to be beyond question, but the Provost and Fellows were forced by the pressure of public opinion to censure him, and after a decent interval he resigned. From 1918 - 1920 he was Rector of Sidestrand, Norfolk, and in 1920 he became Dean of Whitelands Teacher Training College, Chelsea, where he remained for nine years. In 1931 he was made an Honorary Canon of Norwich.
Date
1906 - 1914
Extent & medium
11 items
Associated material
COLL/P6/7 and COLL/FELL.8 for reaction to his sermon. COLL/P8/105 for a letter on discipline and self-government at Eton when he was a boy. ED 379 for character sketches by Geoffrey Madan and Richard Martineau.
Finding aids
Typed list
Publication note
DNB 1841 - 1950; C. Alington : Edward Lyttelton. An Appreciation (John Murray, 1943); E. Lyttelon : Memories and Hopes (John Murray, 1925; A. Robinson in History Today, November 1993
Vale Eton College Chronicle, 1 February 1917
Vale Eton College Chronicle, 1 February 1917
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Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- E. Lyttelton: Curriculum and proposals for a modern side, SCH HM EL 01, (1906 - 1909)
- E. Lyttelton: Salaries and payment of masters, SCH HM EL 02, (1907 - 1910)
- E. Lyttelton: Music at opening of Memorial Buildings, SCH HM EL 03, (21 November 1908)
- E. Lyttelton: Circular denying press reports of immorality, SCH HM EL 04, (5 November 1910)
- E. Lyttelton: Draft notice on wearing 'change' in hot weather, SCH HM EL 05, (8 June 1911)
- E. Lyttelton: Circular on arrangements for unveiling the memorial to Captain Oates, SCH HM EL 06, (May 1914)
- E. Lyttelton: Sermon preached on 17 December 1916, SCH HM EL 07, (1916)
- E. Lyttelton: Letter to the Bursar on a house for Henry Luxmoore, SCH HM EL 08, (28 March 1906)
- E. Lyttelton: Letter to the Bursar on teaching arrangements, SCH HM EL 09, (March 1906)
- E. Lyttelton: Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, SCH HM EL 10, (June 1911)
- E. Lyttelton: Circulars to tradesmen on arrangements for the payment of boys' bills, SCH HM EL 11, (1912 - 1914)
- E. Lyttelton: Circulars to parents on leave, SCH HM EL 12, (1907)
- E. Lyttelton: Royal visit to Eton, SCH HM EL 13, (16 June 1913)
- E. Lyttelton: Correspondence concerning the salary of Dr Johnson as precentor, SCH HM EL 14, (1914)
- E. Lyttelton: Visitors' book, SCH HM EL 15, (1905 - 1918)