Name |
Westcote Whitchurch Lewis LYTTLETON [1] |
- Forename: Is sometimes seen as Westcott.
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Residence |
1822-25 |
Scotland [2] |
Lived in Scotland for this period |
Born |
24 Jan 1818 |
Ceylon/Sri Lanka [3] |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
1825 |
Van Dieman's Land, Australia [2] |
Lived in Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) until 1935 |
Education |
1835 |
England, UK [2] |
Arrived august 1835 to enter the Royal Military College. |
Military |
1837 [2] |
Commissioned ensign 1837, lieutenant in 1839, and captain in 1845. Posted to Halifax, Nova
Scotia in 1840 with 64th Regiment. |
Military |
1841 |
Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada [4] |
Lieutenant. 64th Regiment. Posted in Halifax. |
Miscellaneous |
Westcote Whitchurch Lewis Lyttleton as an artist: See Note [5] |
- Contributed by
Design and Art Australia Online
Watercolourist and army officer. Son of William Thomas Lyttleton. Though he lived inVan Diemen's Land for ten years, most of his surviving work is during his period in Halifax, Canada.
Watercolourist and army officer, third child and eldest son of the seven children of Anne and William Thomas Lyttleton , was born in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) when his father was on an army posting there and was baptised Westcote, a family name of the Lyttletons of Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, to whom he was distantly related. The family was in England and Scotland in 1822-25, then migrated to Van Diemen’s Land whereWestcote remained for ten years. He left for London in February 1835, arriving in August in order to enter his father’s old college, the Royal Military Academy.
Commissioned ensign in 1837, lieutenant in 1839 and captain in 1845, Lyttleton was posted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the 64th Regiment in 1840 and arrived in October.In 1842 he married Joanna, eldest daughter of 'Governor’ PeterMcNab, a member of one of Halifax’s leading families. He purchased McNab Island off Halifax and lived therefor seventeen years. Carter calls his undated watercolour panorama of Halifax Harbour Seen from McNab’s Island (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) the masterpiece among the small numberof works of early Halifax known today. Although obviously a
very competent landscape sketcher before arriving in Canada, no Tasmanian work has been conclusively identified. This Canadian watercolour, however, is close in style to that of William Lyttleton’s Panshanger , allowing the presumption that his art training came as much from his father as from the drawing lessons he would have received atSandhurst. In 1853 W.W. Lyttleton ...
c.1822 Arrived in Van Diemen's Land
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Occupation |
1844 |
Northamptonshire, England [6] |
Lieutenant in 64th Regiment of Foot (as per entry in son's baptism record) |
Residence |
1844 |
Northamptonshire, England [7] |
Living in military barracks - Weedon Barracks. |
Died |
9 Aug 1886 |
Shew-le-Crow Keswick, Cumberland, England [3, 8] |
- Will proved by Roderick Hugonin of Kimmylies House Inverness in North Britain. Sole Executor.
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Person ID |
I67 |
McNab/Kuhn |
Last Modified |
26 Aug 2023 |
Family |
Joanna MCNAB, b. 16 Sep 1816, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada , d. 22 Jun 1908, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland (Age 91 years) |
Married |
26 Oct 1842 |
Nova Scotia, Canada [9, 10] |
Children |
+ | 1. William Margrave LYTTLETON, b. Abt 1843, Northamptonshire, England , d. 29 Jul 1911, Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia (Age ~ 68 years) |
+ | 2. Westcote McNab LYTTLETON, b. 3 Nov 1846, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada , d. 16 Aug 1897, Rakaia, Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand (Age 50 years) |
| 3. George Waldron LYTTLETON, b. 31 Mar 1850, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada , d. 1880, Horfield Barracks, Horfield, Gloucestershire, England (Age 29 years) |
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Last Modified |
20 Mar 2021 |
Family ID |
F18 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |