George Lyttelton (1709-1773) was a politician and poet. He had a privileged background and studied at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.
He was one of the founding members of the Cobham Cub’s in 1735; a political group made of future prime ministers William Pitt and George Grenville.
Lyttelton was the chancellor of the Exchequer between 1755-56 and was in the House of Lords.
He loved poetry and was friends and inspired by Alexander Pope.
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“The writer while in England a few weeks since, was conversed with by many of the Principal Nobility and Gentry of this Country, who have been signally distinguished for their learning and abilities, among whom was the Earl of Dartmouth, the late Lord Lyttelton, and others who unanimously expressed their amazement at the gifts with which infinite Wisdom has furnished her”
The advertisement is quoted from Vincent Carretta's novel Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, on page 98. Published by the University of Georgia Press in 2014.
More information on him here: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lyttelton-george-1709-73