Personal Life
Lyttelton was married twice. His first wife was Patricia Mary (Pat) Braithwaite (b. 1929) whom he married on 19 August 1948. They had one daughter, Henrietta (b. 1949). In 1952, following his divorce, he married (Elizabeth) Jill Richardson (1933–2006), by whom he two sons and a daughter, Stephen (b. 1955) and David (b. 1958), and Georgina (b. 1963).
Despite his celebrity, he was intensely private. He designed his house in Arkley, Hertfordshire, with blank walls on the outside and the windows opening onto an internal courtyard. He hated using the telephone and kept his number ex-directory, changing it if anybody else discovered it. Given his dislike of the telephone, he communicated by post, including letters hiring and firing members of his band.
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