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Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet (1628 – 2 May 1716) was an English Governor of Jamaica, an army officer and MP.
He fought in the royalist army and escaped to France in 1648. He was made cupbearer to Charles II in 1650 while in exile and after the Restoration knighted in 1662. He governor of Jamaica from 1662 until 1664 and founded the first town of Port Royal where he summoned the first legislative assembly in 1664. He was a major of the yellowcoated maritime regiment, the precursor of the Royal Marines, governor of Harwich and Landguard Fort at time of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672. He was M.P. for Bewdley from 1685 until 1689 and succeeded his brother, Henry, as 3rd baronet in 1693.
==Biography==
Charles Lyttelton was born the second son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet of Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. He was knighted in 1662. He inherited the baronetcy and the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley on the death of his brother Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet in 1693.
In his brother's lifetime he served as an army officer, rising to a Brigadier General and serving as Governor of Jamaica in 1663, of Harwich in 1667 and of Sheerness in 1680. He was joint Agent for Jamaica from 1682. He became Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1685.
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