LITCHFIELD, Harriet (dau. of John Silvester Hay, head surgeon of royal hospital, Calcutta). b. 4 May 1777; first appeared at Richmond 1792 as Julia in The Surrender of Calais; acted in Scotland and at Liverpool 1793; (m. 1794 John Litchfield, editor of The monthly mirror, who d. Mountfield house, Harrow road, London 30 May 1858 aged 84); played at Covent Garden 1797–9 and 1800–5; acted Lady Macbeth 5 Dec. 1800; the original Ottalia in Monk Lewis’s Alfonso, king of Castile 15 Jany. 1802, and Mrs. Ferment in Morton’s School of reform 15 Jany. 1803; played at the Haymarket 1805–6, retired 1806; last appeared on stage at Haymarket 8 Oct. 1812 as Emilia in Othello, her best part. d. 11 Jany. 1854, portraits of her by De Wilde and Samuel Drummond are in Garrick club.
LITCHFIELD, Henry. b. Great Torrington, Devon 7 Oct. 1786; entered navy 1 May 1800; commander of the Moselle 1813 and of the Mohawk 1813–4; commander of the Orontes 1824–6 on the Halifax station; captain 20 Nov. 1826; retired admiral 15 June 1864. d. London 26 Aug. 1864.
LITCHFIELD, William Edmund. b. 1803; entered Madras army 1819; cornet 7 Madras light cavalry 1820; captain 6 light cavalry 6 Oct. 1828, major 30 Sep. 1840 to 11 Sep. 1848; lieut.-col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1849–50, of 5 Madras light cavalry 1850 to 8 Dec. 1852, of 2 Madras light cavalry 1853–6 and 1857–9, and of 7 Madras light cavalry 1856–7; M.G. 31 Aug. 1856. d. 3 Vicarage gardens, Church st. Kensington 30 April 1873.
LITOLFF, Henri Charles (son of Louis Litolff, musical composer). b. London 6 Feb. 1818; pianist Covent Garden theatre 24 July 1832; music publisher at Brunswick 1851–60; resided in Paris from 1861; published much music in Brunswick, London, Magdeburg and Paris 1846–86; composed and produced the following operas in Paris and Brussels, La boite de Pandore, opera-bouffe 1872; Héloise et Abelard, opera comique 1872; La fiancée du roi de Garbe, opera comique 1874; La belle au bois dormant 1874; La mandragore 1876; Les Templiers, opera 1886; L’escadron volant de la reine, opera comique 1888. d. Colombe near Paris, Aug. 1891.
LITTLE, Sir Archibald (2 son of Archibald Little of Shabden park, Surrey). b. 7 Sep. 1810; ed. Charterhouse 1822 etc.; cornet 9 dragoons 4 Oct. 1831, lieut.-col. 20 June 1854 to 24 May 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. of 11 hussars 23 May 1873, of 9 lancers 8 March 1875 to death; general 21 Jany. 1880, placed on retired list 7 Sep. 1880; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 25 May 1889; served in Sutlej campaign including Sobraon; commanded 1 brigade of cavalry at siege of Lucknow; commanded the post of Dilkousha 16–24 Nov. 1857; commanded the cavalry brigade in Ireland, Jany. 1868 to July 1869. d. Upton house, Tetbury 10 June 1891.
LITTLE, George (3 son of George Little of Blackburn, Lancs.) b. 1815; articled to Slater and Heelis of Manchester, solicitors; barrister M.T. 8 May 1840, bencher 30 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; judge of chancery court of county palatine of Lancaster 22 April 1871 to death. d. 11 New sq. Lincoln’s inn, London 27 Jany. 1881. bur. Salford cemetery.
LITTLE, Herbert John (son of John Little of Eldernell, Cambs.) b. 1835; member of R. Agricultural Society 1870, on the council 1881 to death, steward of implements 1884, senior steward at Newcastle exhibition 1887, when he wrote a report on the implements; judge of farms in Warwickshire competition 1870 and judge in Cumberland and Westmoreland competition 1880, his 2 reports printed in vol. xii and xvi of Journal of the society; wrote articles on The agricultural labourer 1887, on Working dairies, and on Technical instruction; alderman of Isle of Ely county council; published Farm labour account book 1886. d. Coldham hall, Wisbech 30 Jany. 1890. The Times 3 Feb. 1890 p. 6.
LITTLE, Robert Wentworth. b. Dublin 1838 or 1839; in business in London 1855; clerk in the masonic grand secretary’s office 1862, second clerk and cashier 1866–72; secretary of the masons’ girls’ school 1872; initiated in the royal union lodge, Uxbridge 1861; honorary member of 80 lodges and chapters; the first P.G. secretary of Middlesex on the provincial grand lodge being established; P.G.S.W. 1875; provincial G.H. in chapter, the highest possible position 1875; consecrated all the lodges in the province of Middlesex; edited The Rosicrucian, a record of the Society’s Transactions 1868–78; General statutes of the order of knights of the Red Cross 1868. d. 7 St. Martin’s road, Stockwell, London 12 April 1878. bur. Camberwell cemetery, Honor Oak 17 April. Masonic portraits. By J.G. (1876) 100–5.
LITTLE, Thomas. b. Feb. 1802; pupil of Robert Abraham; practised in London as an architect and surveyor, then as an architect only; built church of St. Mark, Regent’s park 1848, presented parish of St. Pancras with the ground upon which it stands; built All Saints’ church, St. John’s Wood 1850; St. Saviour’s, Warwick road, Paddington 1856; church of Fairlight near Hastings, chapels at Nunhead cemetery, and Paddington cemetery near Wilsdon, Marylebone girls and infant schools. d. 36 Northumberland st. Marylebone road, London 20 Dec. 1859. G.M. viii 406 (1860).
LITTLEDALE, Richard Frederick (4 son of John Littledale of Dublin, auctioneer). b. Dublin 14 Sep. 1833; foundation scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1850; B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858, LL.B. and LL.D. 1862, D.C.L. Oxford 1862; C. of St. Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk 1856–7; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Crown st. Soho, London 1857–61; heard more confessions than any priest of the Church of England except Dr. Pusey; a great speaker and controversialist; author of Catholic ritual in the Church of England, scriptural, reasonable, lawful 1865, 13 editions; The mixed chalice 1867, 4 editions; Plain reasons for not joining the church of Rome 1880; author with rev. James Edward Vaux of The priest’s prayer book 1864, 7 ed. 1890; The people’s hymnal 1867, 8 editions; The Christian Passover 1873, 4 ed., and The altar manual. d. 9 Red Lion sq. Holborn, London 11 Jany. 1890, memorial reredos erected in chapel at St. Katharine’s 32 Queen sq. London, March 1891. Church Portrait Journal, iii 85–8 (1882), portrait; London Figaro 1 Feb. 1890 p. 9, portrait.