R. H. (Robert Henry) Lyttelton

Born in Westminster on January 18, 1854, Robert Henry Lyttelton was the sixth son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to become a solicitor as well as an amateur cricketer.

Although he played only a small number of first-class cricket matches in the 1870s, he remained closely associated with the sport and became better known through his writing. He co-edited Cricket for the Badminton Library with A. G. Steel, and his name is also associated with Out-door Games: Cricket & Golf, showing his interest in explaining sport to a broad reading public.

Lyttelton died on November 7, 1939, at North Berwick in Scotland. Today he is remembered less for statistics than for the thoughtful, gentlemanly sporting tradition his books helped preserve.