The title ViscountCobham was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1718 for Richard Temple, 1st Baron Cobham, who had been created Baron Cobham, of Cobham in the County of Kent, in 1714, along with a second Barony of Cobham with the same territorial designation as the earlier one.
Lord Cobham died without male issue, and whilst the 1714 Barony became extinct the 1718 Viscountcy and Barony passed by special remainder to his sister, Hester Grenville, who in 1749 was created Countess Temple.
Other titles held with the Viscountcy are Baron Cobham, of Cobham in the County of Kent (created 1718), Baron Westcote, of Ballymore in the County of Longford (1776), and Baron Lyttelton, of Frankley in the County of Worcester (1794).
CharlesJohnLyttelton, the 10thViscountCobham, KC, PC, GCMG, GCVO, who died in hospital on March 20, aged 67, was a member of one of the greatest of cricketing families.
Lyttelton, began to play for Worcestershire in 1932 and, after captaining them on a number of occasions in 1935 and going out to Australia and New Zealand that winter as Vice-Captain of the M.C.C. side under E. Holmes, was the county's official Captain from 1936 to 1939.
Lyttelton impressed on his side that, if they played their normal game, they stood no chance at all: if they slung their bats at the ball, one or two would probably be lucky and get a few.
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