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 Death Announcements 1832-1844
| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| | Surname | Lyttleton | | | First names | Apphia | | | Rank/ occupation | Right Honourable Lady & widow | | | Death date | 11 Apr 1840 | | | Place of death | Great Malvern  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine |  | Edition | May 1840 | | | Page number | 557 | | | Detail | At her residence, Peach Field Lodge, Great Malvern, aged 96, the Right Hon. Apphia Lady Lyttleton, widow of Thomas second Lord Lyttleton, who died in Nov. 1779. She was the second dau. of Broome Witts, of Cheping Norton, co. Oxf. was married first to Joseph Peach, esq. Governor of Calcutta, and secondly to Lord Lyttleton in 1772. With means comparatively slender, she was eminently charitable. The charity schools founded by her, the public walkslaid out and improved, the House of Industry, are standing monuments of her beneficent disposition. In all acts of charity, in all plans for the amelioration of the condition of the poor, she led the way. |
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