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George William Spencer Lyttelton CB FRGS (12 June 1847 – 5 December 1913) was an English civil servant who acted as private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was also one of eleven members of the Lyttelton family to play first-class cricket; primarily for Cambridge University during his time studying there. ==Early life and cricket career== George William Spencer Lyttelton was born in Westminster, London on 12 June 1847, the fourth son of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton and his first wife Mary Glynne.〔 〕 Having studied at Eton College, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1869 and received his Master of Arts (M.A.) in 1874. He played a number of cricket matches for Eton during his time at the school, including the annual fixture against Harrow in each of 1863, 1864 and 1865. In his first of these contests, he claimed four wickets in Harrow's only batting innings of a drawn match,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eton College v Harrow School: Other matches in England 1863 )〕 and he scored a half-century in the second, but could not prevent Eton losing by an innings that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eton College v Harrow School: Other matches in England 1864 )〕 In both of these contests, he played alongside his older brother Neville. In his final year at Eton, he was the captain of the cricket team. In the match against Harrow that year, in which Lyttelton claimed three wickets, his side once again lost by an innings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eton College v Harrow School: Other matches in England 1865 )〕 He made his first-class debut during his first year at Cambridge; appearing against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in May 1866. He claimed a wicket in each innings, and scored 23 runs in his only appearance at the crease.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club: University Match 1866 )〕 Facing Cambridgeshire later that month, he took seven wickets in the first innings, conceding 33 runs; the best bowling figures of his career. He collected three further wickets in the second innings to complete the only ten wicket haul of his career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Player Profile: George Lyttelton )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Cambridgeshire: University Match 1866 )〕 He received his blue that year by appearing in the match against Oxford. He made scores of one and three with the bat, and took three tail-end wickets in a match which Cambridge lost by 12 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oxford University v Cambridge University: University Match 1866 )〕 Despite his bowling achievements in 1866, in which he claimed 16 wickets for Cambridge at an average of 14.75,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Bowling in Each Season by George Lyttelton )〕 he was used as wicket-keeper for his first appearance in the subsequent year, taking five stumpings against the MCC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club: University Match 1867 )〕 In the next match, against Southgate, he narrowly missed out on a century, having scored 99 runs in the first innings,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Southgate: University Match 1867 )〕 but achieved the landmark score in the following game, against Cambridgeshire. Batting at number four, he scored 114 runs, almost half of his team's total for the first innings. The university won by eight wickets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Cambridgeshire: University Match 1867 )〕 The score remained the best of his career, resulting in both his highest total batting, and his best bowling figures, being against the same side: Cambridgeshire.〔〔〔 He represented his university against Oxford for the second and final time in 1867, and though he claimed just one wicket and made scores of 17 and 20 not out,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oxford University v Cambridge University: University Match 1867 )〕 he was praised for his sensible batting in the second innings which helped his team win the match by five wickets. In 1868, Lyttelton played five matches for Cambridge, but did not feature in the contest with Oxford.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-Class Matches played by George Lyttelton (18) )〕 His batting average dropped significantly from the previous year's 37.88 to 13.57,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by George Lyttelton )〕 and over half of his wickets for the season came in a match against Southgate. In that match he took five wickets for 17 runs in the second innings, the second five-wicket haul of his career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridge University v Southgate: University Match 1868 )〕 After leaving university, Lyttelton only played two further first-class matches, appearing for the amateur side "Gentlemen of England" against a university on each occasion.〔 Along with the majority of his family, he appeared a number of times for the "Gentlemen of Worcestershire", a fore-runner to Worcestershire County Cricket Club, for whom he made his debut in a match against the "Gentlemen of Warwickshire" shortly before entering Cambridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gentlemen of Warwickshire v Gentlemen of Worcestershire: Other matches in England 1865 )〕 Playing for the county in 1866, Lyttelton and his brother Charles took nine of Shropshire's first innings wickets, the other being a run out.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gentlemen of Worcestershire v Gentlemen of Shropshire: Other matches in England 1866 )〕 In 1878, six years after his final first-class appearance, he scored 127 runs against the Free Foresters, his highest recorded batting total for the county.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gentlemen of Worcestershire v Free Foresters: Other matches in England 1878 )〕 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「George William Spencer Lyttelton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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