{"id":686,"date":"2019-11-23T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2019-11-23T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:07:41","slug":"december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Lytton family have stood for Parliament in every century since the 16<sup>th <\/sup>\u2013 excluding this one\u2026 so far.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be another member of my family throwing themselves into national politics before the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century is out.\u00a0 It\u2019s in our blood.\u00a0 Consider William Lytton (1586-1660) \u2013 he was a staunch Parliamentarian, which led to his imprisonment during the English Civil War.\u00a0 The Lytton family has been on all sides of the political debate.\u00a0 In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Century Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873) began his political life as a radical Whig and ended it as a Tory Cabinet minister.\u00a0 In the last Century, Constance Lytton (1869-1923) never stood for Parliament, but her militant politics led four times to her imprisonment.\u00a0 Her nephew, Antony Knebworth (1903-1933), became Conservative MP for Hitchin at the young age of 27, on the National Coalition ticket, which led to the splintering of the Liberal Party and the loss of its previous dominance.\u00a0 His nephew, my father David Lytton Cobbold (b.1937), on the other hand &#8211; and at the other end of the century &#8211; fought hard for the Liberal Party in both General and European Elections. \u00a0Whatever their party allegiance, they all stood for the interests of our local community, and therefore I am very pleased that in this month\u2019s General Election &#8211; at time of writing \u2013 there is at least one Knebworth resident standing to be our next MP.\u00a0 As the Lytton Family motto goes \u2013 \u2018hoc virtutis opus\u2019 \u2013 \u2018there is virtue in this work\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryCobboldKH\">@HenryCobboldKH<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-687 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lyttons-For-Parliment-2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lyttons-For-Parliment-2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lyttons-For-Parliment-2-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lyttons-For-Parliment-2-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Lyttons-For-Parliment-2.jpg 1786w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Lytton family have stood for Parliament in every century since the 16th \u2013 excluding this one\u2026 so far.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure there\u2019ll be another member of my family throwing themselves into national politics before the 21st Century is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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