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, where he was noted as a strong all-round sportsman, and later studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving his BA in 1875 and MA in 1878.

Although he played only a small number of first-class cricket matches, he remained closely associated with the game and became known for his views on sportsmanship. Later accounts credit him with helping to push for changes to cricket laws aimed at discouraging players from blocking the wicket with their legs.

Lyttelton also wrote about sport, publishing books on cricket and collaborating on other sporting works, including writing on golf. He died on November 7, 1939, in North Berwick, Scotland, leaving behind the picture of a classic late-19th-century sporting gentleman who was as interested in how games should be played as in the scores themselves.