Antony Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Right Honourable
The Viscount Chandos
Birth Date:	23 October 1920
Successor:	Thomas Lyttelton
Predecessor:	Oliver Lyttelton
Spouse:	Caroline Mary Lascelles
Children:	4
Parents:	Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne

Antony Alfred Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos (23 October 1920 – 28 November 1980) was a British soldier and peer^[1] from the Lyttelton family.

Biography

Lord Chandos was the son of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, and Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, a daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Chandos served in the General Staff during World War II in the Mediterranean from 1942–45, where he was mentioned in dispatches. In 1950 Chandos joined the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon & Co. where he stayed until 1975.

Marriage and children

Chandos married Caroline Mary Lascelles, daughter of Sir Tommy Lascelles, on 20 May 1949. They had two sons and two daughters:^[2]

• Hon Laura Katherine Lyttelton (born 18 May 1950)
• Thomas Orlando Lyttelton, 3rd Viscount Chandos, Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot (life peerage), (born 12 February 1953).
• Hon Matthew Peregrine Antony Lyttelton (born 21 April 1956)
• Hon Deborah Claire Lyttelton (born 18 September 1963)

Lord Chandos died in 1980 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his elder son, Thomas.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chandos, Viscount (UK, 1954). 2013-11-25. 2014-12-23. Cracroft's Peerage.
2. http://www.thepeerage.com/p1762.htm#i17611 The peerage.com, entry for 2nd Viscount Chandos