Antony Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos


Antony Alfred Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos was a British soldier and peer from the Lyttelton family.

Biography

Lord Chandos was the son of Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, and Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, a daughter of George Osborne, 10th Duke of Leeds. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Chandos served in the General Staff during World War II in the Mediterranean from 1942–45, where he was mentioned in dispatches. In 1950 Chandos joined the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon & Co. where he stayed until 1975.

Marriage & children

Chandos married Caroline Mary Lascelles, daughter of Sir Alan Lascelles, on 20 May 1949. They had two sons and two daughters:
Lord Chandos died in 1980 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his elder son, Thomas.