William Lytton

Sir William Lytton DL JP (29 September 1586 – 14 August 1660) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.

He was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, and Anne (née St John) Corbert.

Before his parents' marriage, his mother was the widow of Robert Corbet,[2] MP for Shropshire.

After his grandmother's death, his grandfather married Elizabeth Chamber, a lady-in-waiting to each of King Henry VIII's six wives.

[5] Lytton supported the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War and was one of the commissioners sent by Parliament and received by King Charles who tried to negotiate peace at Oxford in 1643,[2] (They failed to reach terms and the war was to continue for three more years).