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Litton, Edward Leslie, son of William Henry Francis Litton, of Hemel Hempstead, Herts, by Catherine Jane, daughter of Major Blayney Thomas Winslow, of Derrylin, co. Fermanagh, Ireland; b. May 9, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Dec. 1904; Queen's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; 2nd Lieut. 18th Batt. London Regt. Nov. 11, 1912; Lieut. Nov. 28, 1914; served in France March-Aug. 1915; Order of St. Stanislas 1917; asst. Commissioner Nat. Savings Committee 1924; d. 1960.

LITTLETON, EDWARD, third son of Sir Adam Littleton, Bart., and Etheldreda, dau. of Sir Thomas Poyntz, North Ockenden, Essex; bap. Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire 21 Dec 1625 (IGI); at school under Busby (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iv, 574); St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Apr 1641, aged 15; BA 1644; MA 1648 (incorp. Cambridge 1657); Fellow of All Souls Coll. Oxford 1647; Senior Proctor 1656; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Apr 1649, called to bar 15 Nov 1664; went to Barbados as Secretary to Lord Willoughby of Parham 1666; acted as Judge, Barbados 1670-83; member of Assembly, Barbados 1674; agent for Barbados from return to London in 1683; author of several tracts, some published anonymously; m. 1669 Dorothy, widow of Edward Harrison, Barbados, and dau. of John Booth, Glossop, Derbs.; buried Greenwich, Kent 9 Feb 1701/2. DNB.

LITTLETON, ADAM, sixth son of Rev. Thomas Littleton, Vicar of Halesowen, Worcs.; b. 2 Nov 1627; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, Westminster Student; expelled by Parliamentary Visitors, but seems to have come back into residence, for in May 1651 he petitioned for restitution of his Craven Scholarship, which had been sequestered; DD 1670; an Usher at the School; Under Master 1658-61, resigned; started a school at Chelsea; ordained deacon and priest 10 Mar 1665 (Winchester); Rector of Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Feb 1669/70; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III from 1670 (still listed as such Miege1691); granted reversion of Head Mastership of the School after the death of Richard Busby (qv), 1670; Prebendary of Westminster from 16 Sep 1674; Rector of Overton, Hampshire, from 1683; Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 27 Mar 1685-9; a man of considerable learning and a collector of books and manuscripts; author of a Latin dictionary in four parts, 1673, and other works; said to have been the author of Tragi-Comoedia Oxoniensis, also attributed to John Carrick (qv); m. 1st, 6 Mar 1665/6 Elizabeth Scudamore, St. Andrew Undershaft, London; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1666/7 Susan, dau. of Thomas Rich, St. Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and mercer; m. 3rd, Susan, dau. of Richard Guildford, Chelsea, Middlesex; d. 30 Jun 1694. DNB.

LITTLER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1740; left 1745.

LITTLEHALES, THOMAS, eldest son of Rev. Joseph Gascoigne Littlehales, Rector of Shalston, Berks., and Elizabeth Davis (IGI); nephew by marriage of William Page (KS 1791, qv); b. Ambrosden, Oxfordshire; adm. Lady Day 1809; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1815; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1819, matr. 21 May 1819, Westminster Student; BA 1823; MA 1826; “went out for a time to Bermuda”; ordained; Vicar of Butlers Marston, Warwicks., 21 May 1834-43; Rector of Sheering, Essex, 22 Nov 1843; d. 19 Apr 1849.

LITTLEHALES, RANDALL WILLIAM, son of Baker John Littlehales (qv); b.; adm. 8 Feb 1779; EICS Madras; acting Ensign, 23rd Native Infantry 23 Oct 1787; d. unm. at Trichinopoly 8 Jul 1789.

LITTLEHALES, JOHN LAURENTIUS, son of Frederick Littlehales, Victoria Road, Clapham, Surrey, and Sarah Maria, dau. of John Hall, Pembridge Crescent, Bayswater, London; nephew of Thomas Littlehales (qv); b. 2 Apr 1858; adm. 26 Jan 1871 (James'); left Apr 1875; m. 15 Nov 1904 Ellen Amelia Garner.

LITTLEHALES, HENRY, brother of John Laurentius Littlehales (qv); b. 2 Aug 1859; adm. 26 Jan 1871 (James'); left May 1872; author, The Mediaeval Records of a London City Church, St. Mary at Hill, 1904, and other works; m. 1905 Agnes Clara Clarke, St. John’s Wood, London.

LITTLEHALES, BAKER JOHN, son of Joseph Littlehales, Westminster, and Elizabeth, sister of William Baker, Portman Square, London, and Wick House, Sion Hill, Middlesex; b. 6 May 1732; adm. Jul 1747; left 1750; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1750, scholar 1751, but did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jun 1746, called to bar 19 Jun 1751; m. Maria, dau. of Bendall Martyn, Secretary to Commissioners of Appeals, Excise; d. 30 Oct 1782. [But GM records that he m. 25 Oct 1759 Miss Maria Hill, Highgate].

LITTLEDALE, THOMAS, brother of Charles Littledale (qv); bap 18 Sep 1783; adm. 27 Sep 1793 (Clapham); in school list 1795; KS (aged 14) 1798; d. at school May 1799.