Richard Warburton Lytton

[6] Warburton added Lytton to his name when, in 1762, he inherited Knebworth House from his uncle John Robinson-Lytton.

[7] In 1793, the inheritance was the subject of a Court of Chancery case that stated that Lytton could only deservedly claim full possession of Knebworth House and Park subsequent to the death in 1790 of Leonora Lytton (née Brereton), who was the widow of his uncle.

[11] A letter he wrote in 1774 to Samuel Parr stated that he had been canvassing for Thomas Halsey, the Hertfordshire Member of Parliament.

[18] He sheltered French exiles, including the Abbé Béliard, who became a teacher at the school run in Enfield by John Clarke.

[26] At age 21, in 1766, he had come into much of the estate left to him, but not the Mansion House which remained with his aunt Leonora or Eleonora.

[29] Edward Bulwer-Lytton inherited Richard Warburton Lytton's library, and was influenced by its works of German philosophy.