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Lettice

Lettice is both a given name and a surname. It is medieval vernacular form of Letitia, meaning "joy, gladness". Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Lettice Boyle, wife of George Goring, Lord Goring
  • Lettice Bryan (1805–1877), American author
  • Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), English writer
  • Lettice Curtis (1915–2014), English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman
  • Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly (1580–1658), Irish peeress and landowner
  • Lettice Digby (scientist) (1877–1972), British cytologist, botanist and malacologist
  • Lettice D'Oyly Walters (1880–1940), English writer
  • Lettice Fisher (1875–1956), English economist and historian
  • Lettice Jowitt (1878–1962), English Quaker educationalist
  • Lettice Knollys (1543–1634), mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth I's courtier
  • Lettice Lee (1731–1776), Colonial American society hostess
  • Lady Lettice Lygon (1906–1973), English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the Bright Young Things.
  • Lettice Mary Tredway (1595–1677), English abbess
  • Lettice Paget, Baroness Paget (1583–1655), English noblewoman born to Sir Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave, wife of William Paget, 4th Baron Paget
  • Lettice Ramsey (1898–1985), English photographer
  • Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist from Herefordshire

Surname

  • John Lettice (1737–1832), English clergyman, translator, academic, and author

Fictional characters

  • Lettice Protheroe, a character in Agatha Christie's novel The Murder at the Vicarage
  • Lettice the Mercy, a tomb-colonist in the game Fallen London
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