The Lyte Family
Agnes Maxwell Lyte
22 October 1871, in St George
Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England
11
December 1871, at All Saints', Margaret Street, London, Middlesex,
England
Henry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
1881:
41 Athelstone Road, Margate, Kent
Alice Anne Maxwell (Lyte) Hulton
31 January 1852, in Brixham,
Devon, England
22 February 1852, in Lower
Brixham, Devon, England
Farnham
Maxwell Lyte
Eleanora Julia (Bolton)
Lyte
Francis Nevile Hulton on
20 June 1900 in Kensington
district, London, England
1881:
Oak Hill Road Cosford, Wandsworth, Surrey
Ann Maria Lyte
January 1821, in Sway (near
Lymington), Hampshire, England
Henry
Francis Lyte
Anne
(Maxwell) Lyte
February 1821
Ann's father, Rev. Henry
Francis Lyte, wrote this poem in her memory:
A Recall
to my Child A.M.
JUNE 1, 1839
COME back, come back, my
blessed child !
Come home, my own light-hearted !
Papa, they say, has rarely smiled
Since from his side you parted.?
That face which beams like opening day,
That laugh which never wearies ;
Why do they linger still away ?
Come home, dear girl, and cheer us !
I saunter sadly through my hours,?
They want one voice to mend them ;
A spell is o?er my drooping flowers,?
They pine for you to tend them.
The fairest now look all amiss,
Too dingy, or too flaunting.?
And are they changed ? ah, no, ?t is this-
The sweetest flower is wanting !
Young spring at last, despite the shocks
Of winter?s lingering bluster,
Has flung her mantle o?er our rocks,
And clothed our hills with lustre.
Music, and balm, and beauty play
In all around and o?er us.
?Come, truant, come,? all seem to say :
?Come, join our happy chorus.?
?Come,? cries the cowslip?s fading bell ;
?Come,? cries the ripening cherry ;
?Come, ere the bloom in every dell
Is turn?d to pod and berry ;
Come, ere the cuckoo change his tone ;
Ere from her nest the linnet,
With all her little ones, is flown,
And you?ve ne?er peep?d within it.?
The sun sets not so brightly now,
Across the golden water,
As when it gleam'd upon the brow
Of my loved absent daughter.
Home has no more its cheerful tone,
Its healthful hue about it :?
When from the lyre one chord is gone
The rest sound ill without it.
Come back ; the city?s flaunting crowd,
The concert?s formal measures,
The din of fashion, false and loud,
Are not like nature?s pleasures.?
These, these alone, the heart can touch,
Are simplest and sincerest.
You have an eye, a soul for such :
Come home, and share them, dearest.
Come, at my side, again to walk
Beside the fresh?ning billow.
Come, where the waves all night will talk
To you upon your pillow.
Come, where the skiff on sunny seas
For you is lightly riding ;
Where health and song in every breeze
My absent girl come chiding.
Come back ! we all from your glad eyes
New light and life will borrow.
?T is not papa alone that sighs,
?Why leave me to my sorrow??
Each, all, in your loved converse miss
Some wonted source of pleasure,
From look, or tone, or smile, or kiss :
Come home, come home, my treasure!
- Dictionary of National Biography (entry for
father Henry Frances Lyte)
- Dictionary
of National Biography (entry for father Henry Frances Lyte)
- Poem from Miscellaneous
Poems by Henry Francis Lyte
Anna Maria Maxwell (Lyte) Hogg
20 April 1822, at
"Bramble Torr", Dittisham,
Devon, England
23 April 1822, in
Dittisham,
Devon, England
Henry
Francis Lyte
Anne
(Maxwell) Lyte
John Roughton Hogg on
24 June 1846 in Lower Brixham, Devon, England
30 July 1889, at Berry
Head House, Brixham, Devon, England, aged 67
The Times,
Monday, Aug 05, 1889; pg. 1; Issue 32769; col A
Death Notice
On Tuesday, 30 July after a very short illness
in her 68th year at Berry Head House, Brixham, Devon
Anna Maria Maxwell, widow of the late
Rev. John Roughton HOGG
and daughter of the late Rev. Henry Francis LYTE
2 August 1889, in Collaton
St Mary
churchyard, Devon, England
proved 12 October 1889 (Prin. Reg., 832, 89), by Henrietta Frances
Maxwell Hogg and Anna Maria Maxwell Hogg, both of Berry Head, Brixham,
Devon, the daughters, two of the Executrixes.
1861: Tormoham,
Torquay, Devon; aged 38 b.
Dittisham, Devon (RG9/1412 F15, p24). Anna is living with her husband,
five children and 13 staff and servants (Governess, Butler,
Housekeeper, Servant, Nurse, Ladiesmaid, Parlourmaid, Cook,
Kitchenmaid, Youngladies maid, Housemaid, Nurserymaid, Coachman)
1871:
"Sorrento", Lower Warberry Rd., Tormoham, Torquay, Devon; aged 48, a
widow and Landowner and farmer of 460 acres, employing 13 men, 3 women
and 3 boys. Anna is living with two children, and 9 staff and servants.
Arthur Maxwell Lyte
10 April 1881, in St
George Hanover Square district, Middlesex, England
5
May 1881, at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, Middlesex,
England Henry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
Eton College
Agnes E. R.
Gore-Browne in
1919, in St
George Hanover Square district, London, England
Ismay Nesta Pryce on
16 July 1925 in Forden
district, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Ismay was the daughter of
Edward Stisted Mostyn Pryce and Henrietta Mary Beauclerk.
Beatrice Katharine Maxwell (Lyte, Lewall)
Tinnie
23 June 1858, in Bagnères de
Bigorre, France
Farnham
Maxwell Lyte
Eleanor Julia (Bolton)
Lyte
Charles
Laird James Albert Lewall on 20 March 1890, in St Mary's
Priory,
Chelsea, London. Charles was of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. He
was born in June 1840 in Schloss Oberwerth, near Coblentz, Rhenish
Prussia, the son of John Charles Lewall, Doctor of Philosophy at the
University of Jena 1838 and Sarah Mary Bolton.
_____ Tinnie
in Buenos Aires,
Argentina
1881:
Oak Hill Road Cosford, Wandsworth, Surrey
Cecil Henry Maxwell Lyte
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Signature of Cecil Henry
Maxwell Lyte
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26 August 1855, in Bagnères de
Bigorre, France
Farnham
Maxwell Lyte
Eleanor Julia (Bolton)
Lyte
Mary
Lucy Agnes Stourton
on 4 October 1894, in St Mary's Catholic Church, Chelsea, London,
England. Mary was the
daughter of Alfred
Joseph Stourton,
24th Baron Segrave
and Mary
Margaret Corbally.
Mary died on 11 October 1950.
Secretary of a Bank
(1881)
26 January 1926
1881:
Oak Hill Road Cosford, Wandsworth, Surrey
1897: 7 Cyde Street, Redcliffe Square, London (Visitation
of England and Wales Vol 5 p156
pub 1897)
1907: 1 Portman Mansions, York Place, London (The
Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Anne of Exeter Volume
p553 pub 1907)
Edith
Maxwell Lyte
30 October 1872, in St George
Hanover Square,
London, Middlesex, England
30
November 1872, at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, Middlesex,
England Henry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
Edith was evidently a friend
of the author Augustus
Hare, who left her a framed drawing of Civita Castellana in his will,
as well as the copyright of his books on Sussex and Shropshire.
Augustus also left Edith's mother, Frances two framed views of St
Peters and Torre dei Schiavi by Arthur Strutt.
1881:
41 Athelstone Road, Margate, Kent
Edward Maxwell Lyte
22 August 1844, in Gothenburg,
Sweden
30 December 1844, in the
English Church of
the British Legation (now St. Albans Church), Copenhagen, Denmark
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
Edward was an army officer.
Hart's
Annual Army List
(1863) p335-6 lists Edward in the 61st (The South Gloucestershire)
Regiment of Foot, as an ensign with 1 year of service (ensign as of 1
April 1862). He later became Captain and Adjutant of the 7th
Dragoon Guards
Bulletins and Other State Intelligence p686
(1862)
61st Foot, Edward Maxwell Lyte, Gent.,
to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice James Alexander
Rogerson, who retires. Dated 1st April 1862
3 March 1880, in Kensington
district, Middlesex, England, aged 36. The death record uses
the surname Maxwell-Lyte.
8 March 1880, in Brompton
Cemetery, London,
England
None. Administration granted in the Principal Registry 13 May 1880, to
Emily Gooch of 41 Courtfield Gardens, London, the mother and only next
of kin.
Eleanora Gertrude Maxwell Lyte
11 February 1857, in Bagnères de
Bigorre, France
Farnham
Maxwell Lyte
Eleanora Julia (Bolton)
Lyte
11 December 1864, in
Bagnères de Bigorre,
France
Ellen Maxwell (Lyte) Hoey
22 February 1848, in St. Helier,
Jersey,
Channel Islands
in St. Helier, Jersey,
Channel Islands
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
Clement
James Hoey on 4 June
1869, in
Leamington, Warwickshire, England
Emily Anne Maxwell (Lyte) Steward
1841/2, in Gothenburg, Sweden
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
Popplestone
Thomas Burton Steward on 4
March
1862, in
St. Leonard's, Sussex, England. (The place of St Leonards, Sussex, is
given in the Visitation. St Leonards is in Hastings district, while the
marriage was registered in Hailsham
district,
Sussex). Thomas, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, was the son of
Arthur Steward of Great Yarmouth, and Mary Burton. After Emily's death,
Thomas married Anna Brown.
29 April 1867, in Great
Yarmouth, Norfolk,
England, aged 25
at Bradwell, Suffolk,
England
Ethel Frances Maxwell Lyte
19 June 1855, at Bradwell House,
Bradwell,
Suffolk, England
25 November 1855, at
Bradwell, Suffolk,
England
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
7 December 1855 in Mutford
district, Suffolk, England
14 December 1855, in Saint
Nicholas
Churchyard, Church Walk, Bradwell, Suffolk, England
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Farnham Maxwell Lyte
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Farnham Maxwell Lyte
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Cascade d'Enfer a Luchon,
Pyrenees photographed by Farnham Maxwell Lyte
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Pont
d'Orthez, Basses-Pyrenees photographed by Farnham
Maxwell Lyte
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Signature of Farnham
Maxwell
Lyte
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Farnham Maxwell Lyte
10 January 1828, in Brixham,
Devon, England
at Lower Brixham, Devon,
England Henry
Francis Lyte
Anne
(Maxwell) Lyte
Christs
College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1846, obtaining a B.A. in 1851
and an M.A. in 1863.
Alumni Cantabrigiensis
has:
Adm.
pens. at CHRIST'S, May 6, 1846. S. of the Rev. Henry Francis [B.A.,
Dublin, 1814, author of "Abide with me," for whom see D.N.B.].
B.
Jan. 10, 1827, at Brixham, Devon.
Matric. Michs. 1846; B.A.
1851; M.A. 1863.
Associate, Society of Civil Engineers; Fellow
of the Chemical Society.
One
of the early workers in photography, 1854-70, inventing the (so-called)
"honey" process; originated the borax and phosphate toning-baths still
in use, and introduced the use of iodide. Hon. Fellow of the Royal
Photographic Society.
Member of the Fellowship of the Order of
Merit of Frederick Francis, Grand-Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Married,
1851, Eleanor Julia, dau. of Cornelius H. Bolton, of Faithlegg, Co.
Waterford, and had issue.
Resided
in France, because of ill-health, 1853-80, being well known at
Baguères in the Pyrenees, where he engaged in meteorological
observations.
Bought a salt-mine which was unsuccessful.
Died
suddenly, Mar. 4, 1906, aged 79; buried at St Mary Boltons, Kensington.
(Peile, II. 496; The Times, Mar. 6, 1906.) "
Eleanora Julia Bolton on 6 February 1851, in Norton Fitzwarren,
Somerset, England. Eleanora was born on 11 June 1828, in Trull,
Somerset, the
daughter of Cornelius Henry Bolton, of Faithlegg, county Waterford,
Ireland, and Alicia Sutton. Eleanora died on 7 November 1896 in
Kensington
district, London, aged 68, and was buried in Brompton
Cemetery, London.
Mining Engineer
4 March 1906, in Kensington
district, London, England, aged 78
St Mary Boltons,
Kensington, London, England
Although a mining engineer
by
trade, Farnham
Maxwell
Lyte
is best remembered as a pioneer of several photographic techniques. He
lived in France from 1852 until 1880, for health reasons, moving first
to Luz and later to
the southwestern town of Pau, where he encountered the group of
photographers, including John Stewart and Jean-Jacques Heilmann, who
worked in that area. All his known views are of the Pyrenees.
Lyte was responsible for several technical innovations,
including a
technique for printing skies, improved methods of working with
collodion and waxed paper, and a process he called metagelatin, which
was adopted by several of his peers. He helped to found the
Société
française de photographie and was a member of the
Photographic Society
of Great Britain. Lyte exhibited frequently in the 1850s-60s, receiving
several international medals and awards for his work. In 2000, a
photograph, A Chateau on Pauprice, by Farnham Maxwell Lyte sold at
auction for $5,875.
1881:
Oak Hill Road Cosford, Wandsworth, Surrey
1897: 60 Finborough Road, South Kensington, London (Visitation
of England and Wales Vol 5 p156
pub 1897)
Henry Francis Lyte
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Henry
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Signature of Henry Francis
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Reverend
1 June 1793, at The Cottage,
Ednam,
Roxburghshire, Scotland
13 June 1793, at Ednam,
Roxburghshire, Scotland
Thomas Lyte
Anna Maria (Oliver) Lyte
Portora Royal School,
Eniskillen, Ireland, then Trinity College Dublin which he entered in
1811. Henry graduated BA in February 1814, and later M.A. in 1830. He
was admitted ad eundem at Oxford on 10 June 1834.
Anne
Maxwell
on 21 January 1818, at Queen Square Chapel, Bath, Somerset,
England. Henry was
curate
at Marazion in Cornwall when he met Anne Maxwell, who was
staying
there with a maiden aunt due to her ill health.
Clergyman. Henry was
ordained deacon on 18 December 1814. His first curacy
was in Taghmo in county Wexford, where he stayed for eighteen months,
but
his frequent attacks of asthma led him to resign this post. He then
travelled through France on horseback from September 1816 to summer
1817. After his return to England, Lyte was moved from one curacy to
another before eventually being given a position at the chapel of ease
in Marazion in Cornwall, on 24 June 1817. In January 1820 the family
left for Sway (near Lymington), Hampshire, to live in
temporary retirement. Early in 1822 the family moved to Dittisham,
Devon. Henry held no full-time position at
Dittisham, but while there he was asked to do temporary duty at the
chapel of ease at Lower Brixham. In May 1822 he was invited by the
trustees of the chapel to remain at Brixham permanently. He refused,
and went instead to Charleton in Devonshire where he became curate on 6
July 1822. He stayed for almost two years, before moving back
to Brixham in April 1824. Lyte began by ministering in two churches, St
Mary's Church, Brixham, and the new district church of Lower Brixham.
He joined the schools committee, and by June 1824 had become its
chairman. He took a keen interest in the development of education, and
in addition to conducting annual school examinations he established the
first Sunday school in the Torbay area; he also undertook to teach in
his recently established Sailors' Sunday School. Six-foot-two
tall, he was a Pied Piper to the local children, of
whom
he mustered more than 700 in his Sunday School, which boasted a staff
of 80. On 13 July 1826, Henry was instituted as the first incumbent of
All Saints Church in Lower Brixham, a post he held for the
remaining 23 years of his
life, and in which he was followed by his son-in-law Rev. John R.
Hogg
Henry is best remembered as the author of the
hymns Praise my soul the King of Heaven
and
most famously Abide
With Me the first verse of
which is:
Abide
with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.
The hymn is traditionally sung at
Wembley before the
FA Cup final, originally at the suggestion of King George V, whose
favourite hymn it was reputed to be. Henry also wrote a number of
poems, some of which were published as Miscellaneous
Poems by Henry Francis Lyte, Poems:
Chiefly Religious and The
Poetical Works of the Rev. H. F. Lyte
20 November 1847, at the Hotel de la Pension Anglaise, Nice, France
22 November 1847, in the
English
Cemetery of the Holy Trinity Church, in Nice, France.
A white cross, standing on a flat slab, marks his grave and the
memorial reads:-
Here rests the mortal remains
of the
Revd. Henry Francis Lyte, MA
for 23 years Minister of Lower Brixham
in the County of Devon.
Born on the 1st June, 1793,
died on the 20th November, 1847.
"God forbid that I should glory save
in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Gal. 6-14.
A memorial tablet to Henry Frances Lyte was
placed in Westminster Abbey in 1947.
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Berry Head House in Brixham,
Devon
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After their
marriage, Henry and Anne lived at Nevada House, Fore Street, in
Marazion. In Dittisham the family lived in Bramble Torr, a
house situated on a branch of the river Dart about a mile from
Dittisham. In Brixham,
Anne and Henry lived initially in the town, in Burton House on Burton
Street. The house backed against
cliffs and fronting directly onto the street. This was hardly ideal for
a growing family, and in 1834 they moved out of town to Berry Head
House, a former military hospital, where there was vastly more space.
The legend is that Berry Head House was simply given to Henry Lyte by
King William IV supposedly because he was so impressed with
arrangements made by Reverend Lyte for a Royal visit to commemorate the
arrival of William Prince of Orange at Brixham in 1688. A more prosaic
account is that Henry leased Berry Head from its builder, Roger Hyne
who built it as a military hospital for thye Board of Ordinance in
1809, and had leased it back from the board in 1823 afer the conclusion
of the Napoleonic Wars. Certainly Henry owned the house rather than
leasing it - it remained in his family until 1949. It was during the
Rev. Lyte's tenure that his gardeners uncovered human remains in the
area west of the building known as the Dell, now a lawn. Henry Francis
being a man of the cloth immediately instructed his gardeners to intern
the remains and arranged for the erection of a small memorial bearing
the inscription 'To the unknown dead'. Likely the remains were related
to the house's former use as a hospital. The Lyte household grew to
eleven staff plus a tutor
and curate, many of whom lived in. With a stipend of only
£140
per year, Henry Francis Lyte?s own private income was
essential
to subsidise this high standard of living, as well as his journeys to
continental Europe. One of the ways the vicar supplemented his income
was by educating "the wayward sons of nobility" alongside his own
children. One of these wayward sons was later
to become Lord Salisbury, three times Prime Minister in the Victorian
era.
During the 1840s Lyte spent increasing periods
abroad. First he holidayed in Norway in the summer of 1842. He then
decided to spend the winter of 1844 in Naples, but his progress was
hampered by illness, and he spent considerably more time
abroad than he had wished; finally he returned to England in May 1846.
By August he was off to the continent again, intending to winter in
Rome; he ended up staying until May 1847, and returned to England in
June, in very poor health. He spent the summer at Berry Head, where he
wrote Abide with Me. He left for the
continent again on 1 October 1847. By 5 November he had
reached Nice, where he was seized by influenza and dysentery, and he
died there on 20 November.
Henry was an ardent and
scholarly collector of
antique religious books:
the library of 4,500 books he had amassed with his son's help took 16
days to auction in London after his death, its sale catalogue, marked
with the price obtained for each item, is still to be seen in the
National Library today.
An excellent biography of Henry Francis Lyte written by
Evelyne Miller can be found at http://homepage.eircom.net/~taghmon/histsoc/vol1/3lyte/3lyte.htm,
and further biographical details can be found at http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/396.html
and in an entry on Henry in the Dictionary
of National Biography.
Dated 22 April 1847, proved
(P.C.C., 328, 48) 27 April
1848, by Anne Lyte, the relict, the sole Executrix
Arms: Gules, a chevron between three swans
argent.
Crest: On a trumpet or, a swan, wings expanded,
argent.
Motto: Laetitia et spe immortalitatis
Henry William Maxwell Lyte
29 September
1818, at Nevada House, Fore Street, Marazion, Cornwall, England
at St. Hilary, Marazion,
Cornwall, England
Henry
Francis Lyte
Anne
(Maxwell) Lyte
Christ Church
College, Oxford. Henry matriculated on 20 October 1836, aged 18.
Emily Prettyjohn
Popplestone on 13 June 1843 at the English Church of
the British Legation (now St. Albans Church), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emily is recorded as a spinster of Loddiswell, Devon. Emily was the
daughter of Edward Prettyjohn, of Ganston, Devon, and Susan, the
daughter of John Popplestone. She was born on 17 February 1822, and
baptised at Loddiswell, Devon. After Henry's death, Emily married
Watson Gooch, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 22 September 1858.
3 June 1856, in Great
Yarmouth, Norfolk,
England,
aged 37. Henry left Emily with an income of £500 per annum.
His
obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine
(July 1856)
reads:
June 3
At
Great Yarmouth, aged 37, Henry William Maxwell Lyte, esq., eldest son
of the late Rev. H. J. Lyte, Birsham, Devon; and of his wife, Anna,
dau. of the Rev. H. Maxwell, D.D., Falkland, county Monaghan.
7 June 1856, in Saint
Nicholas Churchyard, Church
Walk, Bradwell, Suffolk, England, aged 38
dated 26 January 1856, proved
(P.C.C., 484,
56) 23 June 1856, by Emily Lyte, the relict, and Charles Henry Mundy,
the Executors
The tale of Henry's
scandalous
romance with Emily Popplestone and the resultant sad family rift is
well told in the March
2006 newsletter of St Albans Church in Copenhagen. The
article, based on information provided by B.E.N. Lyte of Caythorpe,
Lincolnshire, reads in part:
"Returning
to Brixham in about 1840, his parents became concerned that Henry
William had formed an attachment to a local girl, Emily Prettyjohn
Poppelstone. For those of us used to life in the 21st century, 19th
century conventions are hard to appreciate, and especially the rigid
social barriers that then existed between 'gentlefolk' and
the 'sons and daughters of toil'. Emily was said to
be the
daughter of a turnpike keeper (at the lower end of the social scale),
and thus was a most unsuitable companion for the eldest son of an
aristocratic family. Emily's family were doubtless equally
worried for their daughter.
There was unhappiness
and
resistance, until in the end love took its own course, and in December
1842 Emily gave birth to a son, named Henry Maxwell Lyte. This caused
enormous shock and scandal, and led to a break between Henry William
and his parents. The departure of the couple to Copenhagen was
discretely arranged" and the couple were married
there in June
1843. Henry and Emily remained in Copenhagen for the next few years,
but returned to his parents' house at Berry Head House in Brixham in
early 1847, no doubt related to the illness of Henry's father, Henry
Francis Lyte, who died of tuberculosis later that year, after which
Henry and his family returned permanently to England.
Henry Maxwell Lyte
1841
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
Popplestone
27 June 1844,
in St Petri, Copenhagen, Denmark, aged 2½.
Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte
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stamp of Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte, showing his
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Signature of Henry Churchill
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Sir Henry
Churchill Maxwell
Lyte, KCB
29 May 1848, at
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Hyde Park Place, London, Middlesex, England
22
July 1848 in St John's, Southwick Crescent, London, Middlesex, England
John
Walker Maxwell
Lyte
Emily Jeannette (Craigie)
Lyte
After preparatory school
at
Geddington, Northamptonshire, Henry was educated at Eton College
(1861-1866)
and Christ Church, Oxford (1866-1870), where he matriculated on 23 May
1866, aged 17, and graduated with a B.A.
in the school
of law and modern history in 1870, and an M.A. in 1873. In
1929 he received the honorary degree of LittD from the University of
Oxford.
Frances Fownes Somerville on 3 January 1871, in Wells
district, Somerset, England. Frances was born on 17 July
1847, in Wells, Somerset, the daughter of
James Curtis Somerville, of Dinder
House, Somerset, and Emily Periam Hood, the daughter of Sir
Alexander Wood, Bart, of Butleigh Wooton, Somerset, M.P. Frances was
baptised at Dinder on 21 August 1847.
Historian.
Henry
was appointed Deputy Keeper of Public Records 1886 and a Royal
Commissioner for Historic Manuscripts a month later. He was also a
noted
author, his
works including the History
of Eton College
published in 1875 and A History
of the University of Oxford from the earliest times until 1530
published in 1886, and Dunster
and its Lords
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October 1940, at Dinder House, Somerset, England
Dinder, Somerset, England
Henry
is found in Who's Who 1898 edited by
Douglas Sladen
(published by Adam & Charles Black, Soho Square, London, 1898)
page 534:
LYTE, Sir Henry Churchill
Maxwell-, K.C.B.; cr. 1897 ; M.A.,
F.S.A.; Deputy Keeper of the Records and Historical MSS. Commissioner,
1886 ; b. London, 29 May 1848; s.
of J. W. Maxwell-Lyte, Berry Head, Devon; g.s. of
Rev. H. F. Lyte, author of Abide with Me ; m.
Frances Fownes, d. of J. C. Somerville, J.P., D.L.,
Dinder House, Somerset, 1871. Educ.: Eton
; Christ Church, Oxford. Inspector for Historical MSS.
Commission for several years. Publications:
History of Eton College, 1877, 1889; History of the University of
Oxford, 1886; Dunster and its Lords, 1882 ; various Reports for
Historical MSS. Commission; editor of various publications issued by
Public Record Office. Recreations: travel,
photography. Address: 3 Portman Square,
W.; Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, W.C. Club:
Athenaeum.
A more extensive entry is
found in Men and Women of the Time: A
Dictionary of
Contemporaries edited by Victor Plarr (published by George
Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1899) page 685:
LYTE,
Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell, K.C.B., F.S.A., Deputy-Keeper of
the Records, Royal Commissioner on Historical MSS, is the son of the
late J. W. Maxwell Lyte, Esq., grandson of the Rev. H. F. Lyte, the
well-known hymnwriter, and the representative of the families of Lyte
of Lytescary, co. Somerset, and Maxwell of Falkland, co. Monaghan.
He was born in London on May 29, 1848, and educated at Eton
and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took honours in Law and History and
became M.A. In 1875 he published a ?History of Eton
College,?
of which a new edition, revised and enlarged, was issued in 1889.
In 1880 and 1881 he contributed to the Archeological
Journal
a series of papers on ?Dunster
and its Lords,? which
was afterwards reprinted with additions as a volume for private
circulation. This was followed, in 1886, by a
?History
of the University of Oxford from the earliest times to the year
1530.?
In the meanwhile Mr Maxwell Lyte had been acting for some
years as an Inspector for the Historical Manuscripts Commission.
Reports by him on the Collections of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul?s, the Duke of Rutland, and upwards of twenty other
owners, have at different times been presented to Parliament.
In
January 1886 he was appointed Deputy-Keeper of the Records, in
succession to the late Sir William Hardy, and as such was entrusted
with the direction of all official publications and arrangements
connected with the national archives, upon which he presents an annual
report. In the following month he was nominated one of the
Royal
Commissioners on Historical Manuscripts. He was made C.B. in
January 1889, and a K.C.B. in 1897. He married, in 1871,
Frances
Fownes, daughter of the late J. C. Somerville, Esq., of Dinder, co.
Somerset. Addresses : 3 Portman Square, W. ; and Athenæum.
Entry
in Walford's County Families of the UK, 1899
reads:
Lyte,
Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell, KCB Cr. 1897
Only
son the the late John Walker Maxwell Lyte, esq, of Berry Head, Devon,
by Emily, Jeannetta, dau, of Col John Craigle?, of the E.I.C.S. ;
b.
1849 ; m. 1871 Frances Fownes, dau. of James Curtis Somervile, Esq, of
Dindar House, Somerset.
Educated at Eton, and Ch. Ch. Oxford
(BA 1870, MA 1873).
Appointed Deputy Keeper of Public Records
1886 ; and a Royal Commissioner for Historic Manuscripts 1886.
Portman
Square, W1. Atheneum Club.
1861:
St George Hanover Square, London: Henry C M Lyte, age 12 b. Paddington,
Middlesex (RG9 46 F40 p13)
1897: 3 Portman Square, London (Visitation
of England and Wales Vol 5 p155
pub 1897)
- 1861
census; exact date from Who's Who 1898;
exact place from Dictionary of National
Biography
- Visitation
of England and Wales Vol 5 p155
- Alumni Oxoniensis; Walford's
County Families of the UK, 1899; Dictionary
of National Biography
- England Marriage Index (1Q1871 vol 5c p809); exact date
from Dictionary
of National Biography; Frances details
from Visitation
of England and Wales Vol 5 p155
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Dictionary of National Biography
Ida Mary Maxwell Lyte
19 April 1854, in Pau, France
privately, in Pau,
France
Farnham Maxwell Lyte
Eleanora Julia (Bolton)
Lyte
Nun
1881:
"Convent Of Saint Francis", Taunton, Somerset
John Walker Maxwell Lyte
 |
Signature of John Walker
Maxwell Lyte
|
2 January 1825
14 July 1825, in Brixham, Devon, England
Henry
Francis Lyte
Anne
(Maxwell) Lyte
New College, Oxford;
Gentleman Commoner of New
College, Oxford, matriculated 30 June 1843, aged 18
Emily Jeannette M. Craigie, on 22 June 1847, in St
George's, Hanover Square,
London, Middlesex, England. Emily was the daughter of Col. John Craigie
of the
East India Company and Emily (Churchill) Craigie. Emily was born on 11
December 1824, near Calcutta, India. She married, secondly, Frederick
Charles Maitland on 8 February 1873 at Christ Church, Mayfair, London.
she died on 6 January 1890, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery on 9
January 1890. Her will, dated, 17 March 1886, was proved (Prin. Reg.,
165, 90) on 12 February 1890, by Frederick Charles Maitland of 55
Curzon Street, Mayfair, and Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte of 3 portman
Square, Middlesex, C.B., the son, the Executors.
1861: St George Hanover Square, Middlesex; Fundholder
1881:
55 Curzon Street, London, Middlesex
28 July 1848, in Bath,
Somerset, England. His
obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine
(Jul-Dec 1848)
p331 reads:
July 28
At
Bath, John Walker Maxwell Lyte, esq. of Berry-head, Brixham.
2 August 1848, in Bath,
Somerset, England
Administration granted in the
Provincial Court
of Canterbury 20 October 1848, to Emily Jeanette Lyte, the relect.
John Walker Maxwell
Lyte
Reverend
20 June 1850, in St. Helier,
Jersey, Channel Islands
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
Winchester College;
non-collegiate of
Oxford Univeristy, matriculated 10 April 1869, aged 18, Commoner of
Magdelan College, Oxford, 1869, B.A. 1873, M.A. 1875
Clergyman. C.
Biggleswade 1874-7, St
Peter's Eaton Sq. 1877-83, Chaplain to Bishop of Truro 1883-7.
28 January 1887, at Lis
Escop, Truro,
Cornwall, England,
aged 36
2 February 1887, in Truro,
Cornwall, England
dated 26 December 1882, proved (Prin. Reg., 242, 87) on 18 March 1887,
by Emily Gooch of 92 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, Middlesex, the mother,
the sole Executrix.
Winchester College Register (1907) p182
LYTE, JOHN WALKER MAXWELL-
(C), b. 20 June, 1850, bro. of the next.
Magd. Coll. Oxon 1869, 4 Theol. B.A. 1873, M.A.
1875; D. O., d
and p 1874, ?. Biggleswade
1874-7, St Peter's, Eaton Sq. 1877-83, Chapl. to Bishop of Truro
1883-7. D
28 Jan., 1887.
(C)
indicates that John lived in Southgate Hill house
John Maxwell Lyte
Lieutenant 10 May 1875, in St
George Hanover Square district, Middlesex, England
15
June 1875, at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, Middlesex,
EnglandHenry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
Radley
College and Merton College, Oxford. At
Oxford he was a member of the University Swimming team which beat
Cambridge in 1896, and he also rowed in the 'Varsity Torpids in that
year.
Fruit Farmer. In April 1903, John was
appointed Manager of the Transvaal Government Experimental Orchard.
When the Boer War broke out, John joined Roberts' Horse, transferred as
Lieutenant, in Northumberland Fusiliers in May 1900, taking part in the
Relief of Kimberley, and the operations at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove,
Driefontein, Zand River, and Sanna's Post. Lieutenant Maxwell-Lyte also
filled some Staff appointments, and joined the Reserve of Officers in
August 1905.
The
Anglo Boer War website notes, for John
Maxwell-Lyte.
Born
May 10,1875; is son of Sir Henry C Maxwell-Lyte, KCB, and was educated
at Radley College and Merton College, Oxford. He went to South Africa
in 1898, studying fruit culture on the Cape Colony, and has been since
April, 1903, Manager of the Transvaal Government Experimental Orchard,
under the Colonial Office. When the Boer War broke out he joined
Roberts' Horse, transferred as Lieutenant, in Northumberland Fusiliers
in May, 1900, taking part in the Relief of Kimberley, and the
operations at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Zand River, and
Sanna's Post. Lieutenant Maxwell-Lyte also filled some Staff
appointments, and joined the Reserve of Officers in Aug, 1905. At
Oxford he was a member of the University Swimming team which beat
Cambridge in 1896, and he also rowed in the 'Varsity Torpids in that
year. Recreation: Photography.
Margaret
Maxwell (Lyte) Massie
27 March 1874, in St George
Hanover Square,
Middlesex, England
28
April 1874, in Lower Brixham, Devon,
England
Henry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
Edward Richard Massie on 9
August 1904 in St.
Marylebone district, London, England.
The
amusing story of how Margaret and Edward met is told at www.fitzwalter.com. ?The Maxwell-Lytes followed the
custom of the times
in trying to arrange "good" marriages for their daughters. This
resulted in young men without a large fortune being told to keep clear,
and I well remember my father telling me that at the time of his youth
in Cheshire young men of good family but poor means were referred to as
detrimentals.
When Margaret was
thirty, her parents, in order to get her away
from an admirer, sent her off to South Africa to stay with a brother on
his fruit farm. Edward was on the same ship, going out to stay with his
son Roger, who as we have seen married a South-African after the Boer
War. It was a very stormy voyage, and the chaperone took to her bunk
and remained there. Edward and Margaret were both excellent sailors,
and enjoyed each other's company so much that by the time they reached
Cape Town they announced their engagement. Margaret's parents were
furious and sent a cable saying "Return at once by separate ships".
This they did and run into another kind of storm. Edward was 59, three
years older than his prospective father-in-law and they thought he
would die soon and leave all his money to the two surviving sons of his
first marriage, and that their daughter would be left a penniless
widow. In fact they had nearly thirty years of happy married life.
The wedding, on 9 August
1904, was not in the family's local church
as it had "happy memories". The bride's parents wore mourning, and the
mother was observed to tear the service sheet into small pieces and
grind them into the floor under her heel...
Margaret?s parents refused to
have anything to do with
the couple until after Margery's birth. Edward then wrote again to his
in-laws saying that they now had a golden-haired baby and hoped so much
that they would come and see both grand-children. They came, and were
good friends from then on.?
1881:
41 Athelstone Road, Margate, Kent
Philippa Massingberd (Maxwell-Lyte) Pearson
17 February 1845, in Copenhagen,
Denmark
13 May 1846, at home, registered at the English Church of
the British Legation (now St. Albans Church), Copenhagen, Denmark
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
Arthur Cyril Pearson
on 15 December 1864, in Guildford, Surrey, England
1909, in St
Marylebone district, London, England, aged 63
1881:
Rectory, Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire
Walter Maxwell Lyte
4 March 1877, in St
George Hanover Square district, Middlesex, England
2
April 1877, at St. Peters, Eaton Square, London, Middlesex,
England Henry
Churchill
Maxwell Lyte
Frances Fownes (Somerville)
Lyte
Verona Cecil Finch in
1907, in St
George Hanover Square district, London, England
Eton College
William
Robert Maxwell-Lyte
22 August 1846, in Copenhagen,
Denmark
7 April 1847,
at home, registered at the English Church of
the British Legation (now St. Albans Church), Copenhagen, Denmark
Henry
William Maxwell Lyte
Emily Prettyjohn
(Popplestone) Lyte
Winchester College
23 April 1865, in Kandy,
Ceylon. William died of heart disease, while bathing.
British cemetery in Kandi,
Ceylon.
Winchester College Register (1907) p182
LYTE, WILLIAM
ROBERT MAXWELL- (C), b. 22 Aug., 1846,
e.s. of Henry William Maxwell-Lyte, of Berry Head, Brixham, Devon, and
Falklands, ??. Monaghan, Ireland (bro. of the above).
D of
heart-disease, suddenly, while bathing, at Kandy, Ceylon, 23 April,
1865.
(C) indicates that William lived in Southgate
Hill house
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