Politician. George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, 4th Baron Westcote received recognition as an English aristocrat of the Lyttelton family and a Conservative politician in the House of Lords. He served as the Under-Secretary of State of War from January until June of 1846 when Prime Minister Peel's term ended. He was chairman of the Canterbury Association, which encouraged British settlers to immigrate to New Zealand. In New Zealand, the port town of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, bears his name. Born the oldest son of five children of William Henry Lyttelton, 3rd Baron, and Lady Sarah Spencer, who had been the governess to Edward VII, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College in Cambridge. Upon his father's death in April of 1837, he became the 4th Baron Lyttelton and took his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday. He held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office between February and July of 1846 and held the office of High Steward of Bewdley. He was the first President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. He was a benefactor of the Victorian restoration of Worcester Cathedral. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor in 1869 and was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George in the 1869 Birthday honors. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law and was invested as a Fellow in the Royal Society. He married first Mary Glynne, who was the sister of Catherine Glynne Gladstone, the wife of Prime Minister William Gladstone. The couple had twelve children before her death in 1857. Their son George William Spencer Lyttelton was Prime Minister Gladstone's secretary. In 1869, he married Sybella Harriet Clive and the couple had three daughters. In 1876 Lyttelton killed himself at the age of 59 by throwing himself down the stairs in a London house. Upon his death, his eldest son Charles, became the 5th Baron of Lyttelton. He is buried in St. John the Baptist Churchyard Cemetery in Worcester with his second wife. In Worcestershire Cathedral, his marble monument stands between the Lady chapel and north choir aisle.