Sir Roland Lytton (c.1562–1615) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 variously between 1586 and 1611.

Lytton was the son of Rowland Litton of Knebworth

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, Hertfordshire

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. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge in 1576 at age 14, and at Gray's Inn

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 in 1579.

Lytton was a Member of Parliament

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 for Truro, Cornwall from 1586 to 1587. He was Lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 1588 and Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1594–5 He was MP for Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1597 to 1598. In 1603, he was knighted and was MP for Hertfordshire again from 1604 to 1611. His son William Lytton

William Lytton

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was also MP for Herefordshire.