[1] He was the English translator of a number of works by the Swiss Protestant theologians Frédéric Louis Godet and Félix Bovet.
He also published numerous sermons, lectures and addresses of his own, edited a devotional manual (Forms of Praise and Prayer), and wrote an essay on the geology and geography of Clent and its surroundings.
His niece, Lucy Lyttelton, then aged 13 and surprised at the news, described Emily in her diary as "charitable, young (21), amiable, humble, good-looking...".
[6] William Henry Lyttelton later rose to the office of Canon of Gloucester Cathedral[3] but remained rector of Hagley until his death.
[3] He died on 24 July 1884 at the age of 64, without issue,[3] and was buried next to his first wife in the Lyttelton plot at St John the Baptist Church, Hagley.