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William Henry, 1st Baron Lyttelton was born 1724 and died in 1808. He He married first Mary Macartney and they had one son, who died without issue. William married second, Caroline Bristow. They had a son and a daughter. This son, William Henry, became third Baron Lyttelton and it is his descendants which are presented here.
This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.