I was born in 1936 in Leeds to two devoted Jewish parents, my sister Ann* and I shared a happy blitz-free childhood, shielded from the horrors of World War 2.
We treasured the memory of my father’s symbolic act of liberation on VE-day 1945, when he dashed out to the communal bonfire brandishing a toilet seat and placed around Hitler’s neck just in time before his effigy was engulfed in flames
When I was 8 my mother wrote in my autograph book: “Be up be doing if you can. Eager and active makes the man!” Whilst inspired by my parents and grandparents’ charitable work, I may have inherited my passion for campaigning genes from my Great-Grandfather David Lubelski, one of the earliest campaigners for women’s rights
Parents: George Lyttleton OBE (Clothing Manufacturer) & Perle Lyttleton (née Lyons)
Sister: Ann Rachlin MBE founder: Fun With Music and Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children
Married in 1984 Zippi (née Abramovich) MA Birmingham (Applied Linguistics). Author: “Colloquial Hebrew” in Routledge language series.
Children: Maya Nikki and Daniel
I was told I’d won 2nd prize in Britain’s Bonniest Baby Competition but maybe there were only two competitors!
I was born in 1936 in Leeds to two devoted Jewish parents, my sister Ann* and I shared a happy blitz-free childhood, shielded from the horrors of World War 2.
We treasured the memory of my father’s symbolic act of liberation on VE-day 1945, when he dashed out to the communal bonfire brandishing a toilet seat and placed around Hitler’s neck just in time before his effigy was engulfed in flames
When I was 8 my mother wrote in my autograph book: “Be up be doing if you can. Eager and active makes the man!” Whilst inspired by my parents and grandparents’ charitable work, I may have inherited my passion for campaigning genes from my Great-Grandfather David Lubelski, one of the earliest campaigners for women’s rights
Parents: George Lyttleton OBE (Clothing Manufacturer) & Perle Lyttleton (née Lyons)
Sister: Ann Rachlin MBE founder: Fun With Music and Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children
Married in 1984 Zippi (née Abramovich) MA Birmingham (Applied Linguistics). Author: “Colloquial Hebrew” in Routledge language series.
Children: Maya, Nikki 46 (from Zippi’s first marriage) and Daniel
I was told I’d won 2nd prize in Britain’s Bonniest Baby Competition but maybe there were only two competitors!
FAMILY
Family celebrates Zippi’s 70th in 2019
Later Arrivals – Ivy 3 and Leo 7
Ingledew College (Leeds Prep school -1944-49)
Clifton College 1949-54 (State Scholarship) – Read More
Kings College Cambridge 1954-58)MA LLM (Modern Languages & Law – Cambridge Union Committee)
Harvard University Summer School 1956 (First boost of US adrenalin)
Harvard Business School 1969 (Marketing Diploma & promotional skills)
Ingledew College (Leeds Prep school -1944-49)
Clifton College 1949-54 (State Scholarship) – Read More
Kings College Cambridge 1954-58)MA LLM (Modern Languages & Law –
Cambridge Union Committee)
Harvard University Summer School 1956 (First boost of US adrenalin)
Harvard Business School 1969 (Marketing Diploma & promotional skills)
At Clifton I wrote poemat 14 with ‘THE NEXT POET LAUREATE’scrawled immodestly on my copy!
THE END OF THE ROAD
When man becomes Immortal
And travels from this earth,
He takes with him the things he’s done
Of valour and of worth. things he’s done
He leaves behind ill-gotten gains,
His wicked sins and lies,
The wrongs done to his fellow-man, and then before he dies
Repents he of the evil deeds be.did on earth alive,
Deeds of sin and wickedness; God hears and does forgive.
Because he has repented And God has heard his plea,
He now is clean and sinless, and from life’s burden, free.
T. M. LYTTLETON.
POLACK’S HOUSE MAGAZINE VOL 6 NO.1 1950-51‘
Multifaceted Career
After leaving Cambridge in 1958 I started to write plays and compose music. My artistic and commercial paternal and maternal genes made it hard to choose between an artistic career and a more secure option. To prevent me starving in a garret my parents finally resolved my dilemma by paying for my articles to a Leeds firm of solicitors. I resented their decision at first but later acknowledged it to be the best investment they ever made in me, as it enabled me to help make the world a better place in various ways.
Quality time with family and friends. Asking questions; holding power abusers to account. Exercising daily to the great immortals: Mozart Beethoven Schubert etc.
Reading great classics (favorites: Chekhov Trollope, Dickens, Eliot)
Theatre (well-crafted dramas) Non-atonal concerts and opera.
Trying to complete my memoirs following Cicero’s advice-
“If you don’t write it down it never happened”–but perhaps it will thanks to the encouraging reply to my Times letter below:-
IF MEMORY SERVES The Times December 20 2021
Sir, The memory expert Professor Elizabeth Loftus’s claim that each time we recall a memory we run the risk of embellishing or changing it (“False memory can be strong, expert tells Maxwell trial”, Dec 17), prompts me to reconsider whether to risk writing my memoirs.Trevor Lyttleton Founder, Contact The Elderly
PRINT THE LEGEND
Sir, Embellishing or changing recalled memories is exactly why Trevor Lyttleton (letters, Dec 20) should write his memoirs. I’ve written mine. An absolute romp! So much more interesting than the real thing and, of course, I stand by every word. Dr Peter Honey Windsor
