R. H. (Robert Henry) Lyttelton

Born in 1854, Robert Henry Lyttelton was an English cricketer and sports writer from the well-known Lyttelton family. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and although he played first-class cricket only occasionally between 1873 and 1880, he became especially noted as an intelligent observer and critic of the game.

Lyttelton is best known in print for writing about cricket. He co-authored Cricket with A. G. Steel for the Badminton Library, and he also wrote Out-door Games: Cricket & Golf. These books reflect a clear, practical interest in how games were played and understood in his time.

He died in 1939. Today he is remembered less for a long playing career than for the way he recorded the culture of late 19th-century sport, leaving behind writing that connects modern readers with an earlier age of cricket.