Humphrey Lyttelton
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ISIHAC Christmas Special, 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton |
| Born |
23 May 1921 Eton, Berkshire, England |
| Died | 25 April 2008 (aged 86) London |
| Genres | Jazz, dixieland |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, radio presenter, cartoonist |
| Instruments | Trumpet, clarinet |
| Years active | 1945–2008 |
| Labels | Calligraph |
| Associated acts | Tony Coe, Alan Barnes |
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family.
Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, "Bad Penny Blues", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's The Best of Jazz for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host.
Lyttelton was also a cartoonist, collaborating on the long-running Flook series in the Daily Mail, and a calligrapher and president of The Society for Italic Handwriting.
Lyttelton was born at Eton College, Berkshire, where his father, George William Lyttelton (second son of the 8th Viscount Cobham), was a house master. (As a male-line descendant of Charles Lyttelton, Lyttelton was in remainder to both the Viscountcy Cobham and the Barony of Lyttelton.) From Sunningdale Preparatory School, Lyttelton duly progressed to Eton College. He was a cousin of the 10th Viscount Cobham and a great-nephew of the politician and sportsman Alfred Lyttelton, the first man to represent England at both football and cricket, both of whom also attended Eton.
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