CRICKETING FAMILY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 18

CRICKETING FAMILY

Lytteltons Hard On Van Dycks

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 24.

Speaking at a National Book League cricket match luncheon Lord Chandos, a cousin of the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Cobham, referred to the great Lyttelton cricketing family and said that in the family home there were seven Van Dycks, all of which at one time or another had been holed by a cricket ball. Mr Sydney Goldsack, writing to “The Times” from Sutton, Surrey, describes an old cricket book in his possession in which is a record of a match played in 1867 at Hagley Park, the seat of Lord Lyttelton, between Bromsgrove and the Lyttelton family. Bromsgrove scored 150 in the first innings and 51 in the second. The Lyttelton family won by 10 wickets. The first-innings score sheet for the Lyttelton family was as follows: Lord Lyttelton, b Cator .. 0 Hon. E. Lyttelton, c Stracey, b Hill 27 Hon. S. G. Lyttelton, b Hill 51 Hon. A. V. Lyttelton, c Stracey, b Hill .. .. 46 Hon. N. G. Lyttelton, b Cator 15 H n. A. T. Lyttelton, c Kemp, b Cator 16 Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, b Cator 3 Hon. E. Lyttelton, c Hill, b Cator 0 : Hon. A. Lyttelton, b Hill .. 14 The Rev Hon. W. H. Lyttelton. b Cator 0 Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, not out 0 Extras 19 Total 191 Mr Goldsack asks: “Are these the uncles and great-uncles of Lord Chandos who played such havoc with the picture gallery?’’