[1] As a junior officer he was sent to Canada, where he helped defeat the Fenian raids in 1866 and served as secretary to the Oregon Boundary Commission in 1867.

[1] In his young life he made friends, mixing in whiggish aristocratic circles with Edward Grey and Arthur Balfour, later the shapers of imperial foreign policy.

[1] Lyttelton returned to his role as assistant military secretary at headquarters on 21 October 1898[15] and then, having become a supernumerary major general for distinguished service in the field on 15 November 1898[16] and promoted to the substantive rank of major general on 10 February 1899,[17] he briefly took back his old command at 2nd Brigade, now based at Aldershot Command, on 1 September 1899.

"[24] He was in command of the troops in Natal until June 1902, when he became Commander-in-Chief of the whole of South Africa following the end of the Second Boer War the previous month.

[27] On 12 February 1904 Lyttelton was appointed Chief of the General Staff and a member of the newly formed Army Council.

[35] The King insisted on his appointment as Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 10 August 1912[36] until his death there on 6 July 1931.