John Peter Michael Scawen Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton, 18th Baron Wentworth , DL , FRICS Viscount Knebworth between 1951 and 1985, is a British chartered surveyor, peer , and member of the House of Lords .
Background and education Lytton is the son of Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton and the former Clarissa Mary Palmer.[1]
He is a descendant of the poet and adventurer Lord Byron (born 1788) via his daughter Ada Lovelace (born 1815), who was arguably the world's first computer programmer. Her daughter Anne (born 1837) married the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ; their daughter Judith Blunt-Lytton was Noel's mother and thus John's grandmother. He is in addition a descendant of Edward Bulwer-Lytton .
He was educated at Downside School and graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc honours degree in Estate Management, in 1972.
Career After spending thirteen years in the Inland Revenue Valuation Office and some additional years with surveying firms Permutt Brown & Co and Cubitt & West, he set up the practice of John Lytton & Co., Chartered Surveyors, in January, 1988.[2] House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 . However, on 11 May 2011 he won a hereditary peer by-election and regained his seat there, where he sits as a crossbencher (i.e. not a member of a political party).[3]
Lord Lytton has taken his Byronic descent to heart and has contributed to the Newstead Byron Society Review .[4]
Furthermore, he now works part-time in the construction industry and is patron to the Chartered Association of Building Engineers .
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Family On 7 June 1980, Lord Lytton was married to Ursula Alexandra Komoly, a daughter of Anton Komoly of Vienna , Austria . They have three children:[1]
Lady Katrina Mary Noel Lytton (b. 1985)[1]
Philip Anthony Scawen Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (b. 1989)[1]
Hon. Wilfrid Thomas Scawen Lytton (b. 1992).[1] He inherited Newbuildings Place in 1984 from his aunt, Lady Anne Lytton.[6] Knebworth House . He is a Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex .[1]
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