of England. Playing for the Cambridge side in that match were two of his brothers, Edward and Alfred. The Gentlemen won the match by three wickets, but Edward and Alfred outperformed their brother, who did not bowl, and scored one run in his only batting innings. The Times said of him, "'Bob' Lyttelton, though not famous as a cricketer like some of his brothers owing to a certain slowness of foot, was a close student and an able critic of the game". Despite playing just seven first-class matches, Lyttelton played a number of cricket matches that were not afforded that prestigious status. He played for the "Gentlemen of Worcestershire", a forerunner to Worcestershire County Cricket Club, and made his debut for them in a match against the "Gentlemen of Herefordshire" while still at Eton. He played alongside three of his brothers during this match; Neville; Arthur and Edward. In an 1874 match for Worcestershire against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he played as wicket-keeper, and took five catches in the second innings, four of them off the bowling of his brother Alfred, who went on to keep wicket in Test cricket for England. In addition to appearing for Worcestershire, he played for a number of amateur sides, such as the MCC, Free Foresters and I Zingari, for whom he was playing in his final first-class match in 1880. Lyttelton was a strong believer that blocking the wicket with the legs was unsportsmanlike, and battled to outlaw the manoeuvre for over thirty years, even going so far as suggesting that if the ball strikes any part of the batsman at all in front of the stumps then he should be given out. In his 1928 book The Crisis in Cricket and the "Leg Before Rule", Lyttelton claims that the "curse of modern cricket" is drawn matches, which are caused by artificial pitches and "the pernicious modern habit of covering the stumps with the legs". Later life After leaving Cambridge Lyttelton studied farming, on the estate of Lord Wenlock at Escrick, near York. After two years he moved to Birmingham, where he was articled to the solicitors Milward and Co. He qualified as a solicitor in 1882 of which he later became a partner. On 14 July 1884 Lyttelton married the concert singer Edith Santley, daughter of the baritone Charles Santley. She retired from professional singing at the age of 24 when