Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Thomas

Last Name:

Lyttleton

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

After 1666

Inscription:

Naear this place under a blacke Marble lies interrd the body of Sr Thomas Lyttleton of Franckley in the County of Worcester Kt & Bart who died in the year of our Lord 1650 aged fifty Seaven years

And under the same stone also the body of Dame Catherine Lyttleton, his wife, Daughter Aand Sole heir of Sr Thomas Crompton in the County of York Kt who died in the year of our Lord 1666 Aged sixty-seaven years.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Very Good

Condition Description:

See image taken in April 2025

Memorial Notes:

Lyttleton raised troops for the King and was the royalist governor of Bewdley in 1644 (See Malcom Atkin, The Civil War in Worcestershire (Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995) pp29, 69