Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet, of Frankley, in the County of Worcester, MP was one of the early English Governors of Jamaica, an army officer, and Member of Parliament from the Lyttelton family.
Governor of Jamaica
Charles Lyttelton was the second son of Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet, of Frankley, in the County of Worcester, and Catherine Crompton. He fought in the Royalist Army and escaped to France in 1648. He was made Cupbearer to Charles II in 1650 while in exile and after the Restoration knighted in 1662.In his brother's lifetime he served as an Army Officer, rising to a brigadier general and serving as governor of Jamaica from 1662 until 1664 and founded the first town of Port Royal, where he summoned the First Legislative Assembly in 1664, and of Harwich in 1667. In 1663, Governor Lyttelton signed the first treaty with the Jamaican Maroons, granting the maroons of Juan de Bolas and his people land on the same terms as English settlers.
Military career
He was a major of the Yellow Coated Maritime Regiment, the precursor of the Royal Marines, governor of Harwich and Landguard Fort at the time of the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672, and governor of Sheerness in 1680.He was a joint Agent for Jamaica from 1682 until 1685. He became Member of Parliament for Bewdley from 1685 until 1689. He inherited the Baronetcy and the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley, in Worcestershire, on the death of his brother Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet, in 1693.