Editing Humphrey Lyttelton (section)

==Personal life==
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Lyttelton was married twice. His first wife was Patricia Mary Braithwaite (born 1929), whom he married on 19 August 1948. They had one daughter, Henrietta (born 1949). In 1952, following his divorce, he married (Elizabeth) Jill Richardson (1933–2006), with whom he had two sons and a daughter, Stephen (born 1955) and David (born 1958), and Georgina (born 1963).

Despite his celebrity, he was intensely private. The house he had designed by [[John Voelcker]] in [[Arkley]], Barnet, Greater London, had blank walls on the outside and the windows opening onto an internal courtyard.<ref>'Men of the Year' in ''The Architect's Journal'', 15 January 1959</ref> He hated using the telephone and kept his number ex-directory, changing it if anybody else discovered it. Given his dislike of the telephone, he communicated by post, including letters hiring and firing members of his band.

He twice refused state honours which were offered to him. One occasion was in 1976, and in 1994 he declined the knighthood offered by Downing Street: his son Stephen later wrote that "Accepting it was never an option but he still felt sick to the stomach. He kept it from all of us, especially my mother who would have exerted a lot of pressure on him to accept, seeing it as recognition for all his work."<ref>{{cite web |title=Knighthood |url=http://www.humphreylyttelton.com/the-doctorate-years/knighthood/ |website=Humphreylyttelton.com |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref>