About Roland Lytton
Lived 1561 – 1615 (aged 53). Roland Lytton was an English politician.
Sir Rowland Lytton (also Roland Litton) (28 September 1561 – 23 June 1615) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1586 and 1611.
Life Rowland Lytton was the only son of Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, and his second wife, Anne Carleton, daughter of John Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, and sister of George Carleton.
He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge in 1576 at the age of 14, and to Gray's Inn in 1579. He succeeded his father in 1582.
Lytton was a Member of Parliament for Truro, Cornwall from 1586 to 1587. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire in 1587 to his death and Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1594–1595. and Judith married George Smith and then Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet. His son William Lytton was also MP for Hertfordshire.
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English politician
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Roland Lytton was born on 28 September 1561.
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Roland Lytton died on 23 June 1615.
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Roland Lytton was a politician.
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