Earl of Lytton

Register of Interests

• 1: Directorships

  • Director (effectively sole principal), John Lytton & Co Ltd, Chartered Surveyors (all the Member's professional work as a chartered surveyor is done as a sole practitioner trading as a limited company; as such every invoice for work carried out by the Member is paid to the company’s account and not directly to the Member; the Member does no work in a private capacity (i.e. non-professional work) that is paid to this or to any other company)
  • Director (with wife), Lillycombe Estate Ltd (sporting interests in Somerset; the Member provides no services for which he makes any charge or where payment is made to the company)

• 2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.

  • Partner (with wife), Lillycombe Farm Partnership (an unincorporated farming enterprise)

• 4: Shareholdings (a)

  • John Lytton & Co Ltd, Chartered Surveyors (see category 1)
  • Lillycombe Estate Ltd (sporting interests in Somerset) (controlling interest; owned jointly with wife; see category 1))

• 5: Land and property

  • Dwelling house in West Sussex, occupied as principal residence with parts let to residential tenants and to a lodger, from whom rental income is received
  • Co-owner (with wife) of rural estates in Somerset and Sussex including farm and woodland, let business and residential accommodation, holiday lets, mobile phone masts, wayleaves, sporting interests and a private toll road; trustee of associated family trusts
  • Residual interests qua Lord of the Manor of several manors in Surrey, West Sussex and Somerset

• 9: Miscellaneous financial interests

  • Copyrights to certain manuscripts in public ownership, including the Wentworth Bequest, British Library

• 10: Non-financial interests (a)

  • Director, South of England Agricultural Society Company (charitable company) (see category 10(e))

• 10: Non-financial interests (b)

  • Member of the Industry Consultative Committee, University of West London School of Computing and Technology

• 10: Non-financial interests (c)

  • President, Institute for Heraldic and Genealogical Studies
  • Vice Chancellor, Society of Professional Engineers
  • President (a) Newstead Abbey (Notts) Byron Society and (b) Messolonghi (Greece) Byron Society and Vice President, Byron Society (London)

• 10: Non-financial interests (d)

  • Chairman, Horsham Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Commissioner, RICS Land and Society Commission (think tank looking at localism and community ownership/management of property assets)
  • Chairman, Rights of Way Review Committee (a national forum which considers aspects of the law and practice on public rights of way)
  • A Vice President of the Local Government Association

• 10: Non-financial interests (e)

  • Trustee and Council member, South of England Agricultural Society (operator of a showground at Ardingly, West Sussex), and chairman of one of its committees
  • President, National Association of Local Councils (national body for parish, town and neighbourhood councils)
  • President, Sussex Associations of Local Councils (East and West Sussex joint county associations of parish and town councils)