she married. After her death in February 1926, he married, on 19 July 1926, Olive Agneta Clarke. There were no children from either marriage. Lyttelton joined the Birmingham law firm Brabazon Campbell in 1888, and in 1902 moved to London, joining the solicitors Stow, Preston and Co, which became Stow, Preston and Lyttelton. His nephew George Lyttelton wrote of him, "My uncle Bob was a solicitor – and far the stupidest of all the eight brothers. He did all the family business and cost them thousands through his blundering.… He had in his prime a certain flair for words (e.g. Cobden's match) and he loved rolling over his tongue words like 'reversionary legatee' though the family suspected he didn't know what either of them meant." The reference to "Cobden's match" is to Lyttelton's account of the University Match of 1870, published in the Badminton Library volume, Cricket (1888), which he co-edited with A. G. Steel. The piece was selected for inclusion in The Oxford Book of English Prose. Lyttelton died on 7 November 1939 in North Berwick in Scotland. An obituarist in The Times wrote, "If cricket did not exist, Bob Lyttelton would have created it. If sportsmen still exist his ghost will give them substance." He is buried in North Berwick Cemetery on the east side of the town. The grave lies against the east boundary wall. Publications Notes References External links 1854 births 1939 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English cricketers English solicitors Free Foresters cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers I Zingari cricketers Robert Lyttelton Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People educated at Eton College People from Westminster Younger sons of barons