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Rev. Hon. Edward Lyttelton (23 July 1855 – 26 January 1942) was an English sportsman, schoolmaster and cleric. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Middlesex as well as representing the England national football team. ==Life== Lyttelton was educated at Eton College followed by Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member and club librarian of the University Pitt Club. He came from a sporting family, with five brothers playing first-class cricket, Alfred, Charles, George, Arthur ("Right") and Robert. His father, George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, was a British aristocrat and Tory politician. His brother-in-law, Cyril Alington, was a scholar who later wrote a book called ''Edward Lyttelton: An Appreciation''. From 1880 to 1882, Lyttelton worked as an assistant master at Wellington College, and then at Eton College during which time he was ordained in 1886 following residence at Cuddesdon College. He was appointed Headmaster of Haileybury College in 1890, where he remained until 1905. Lyttelton was a canon of St Albans Cathedral from 1895 to 1905. Between 1905 and 1916 he was the Headmaster of Eton College.〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography〕 While at Eton Lyttelton continued the reforms introduced into the curriculum by his predecessor Edmond Warre which resulted in boys being able to enter the school having done no Greek, and being able to specialize in mathematics, modern languages, science, or history. His Christian principles made his position difficult after the outbreak of the First World War, especially after he preached a sermon at St Margaret's, Westminster, in March 1915, in which he said that the whole German nation should not be condemned and that any peace settlement should be generous. This led to a public storm of protest, and perhaps partly as a result Lyttelton resigned in 1916. He gave up school mastering and worked through his spiritual problems as a parish priest, becoming in 1917 a curate to the Revd. Richard "Dick" Sheppard at St Martin-in-the-Fields and then from 1918 to 1920 working as rector of the small parish of Sidestrand in Norfolk. He became dean of Whitelands College, Chelsea, a teacher training college for women, in 1920, acting as chaplain and lecturer on the Bible. He retired in 1929 after a serious operation, to Norwich where he was an honorary canon 1931-1941. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Lyttelton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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