LITTLER, John. Ed. Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822; dean and vicar of Battle, Sussex 1836 to death, the deanery being a peculiar with power of granting marriage licences and a court for proving wills; author of Two sermons preached at Battle 1847, 1848. d. the deanery, Battle, Sussex 17 Feb. 1863.
LITTLER, Sir John Hunter (eld. son of Thomas Littler of Tarvin, Cheshire). b. Tarvin 6 Jany. 1783; entered Bengal army 1799; lieut. 10 Bengal N.I. 29 Nov. 1800, captain 16 Dec. 1814; lieut.-col. 14 N.I. 23 May 1828 to 1832; lieut.-col. 54 N.I. 1832 to 1835 or 1836; lieut.-col. 40 N.I. 1835 or 1836 to 30 July 1839; col. 36 N.I. 30 July 1839 to death; commander at Barrackpore 15 July 1840 to 3 Feb. 1843; commanded Rajpootana field force 7 April 1843 to 30 May 1845; commanded Lahore field force 30 May 1845 to 7 Jany. 1847; commanded Punjaub division 7 Jany. 1847 to 17 Jany. 1848; provisional member of council 12 May 1847 (took his seat 21 Feb. 1848) to 10 May 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 May 1844, G.C.B. 31 Jany. 1848. d. Bigadon, Buckfastleigh near Totnes, Devonshire 18 Feb. 1856. bur. in family vault at Tarvin. I.L.N. viii 157 (1846), portrait.
LITTLETON, Henry (son of James Littleton). b. London 7 Jany. 1823; entered music publishing house of Alfred Novello 1841, manager 1846, sole manager 1856, a partner 1861, sole proprietor 1866; had a branch establishment in New York; created the development of English taste for choral music; published the Messiah in 12 monthly numbers at sixpence 1846 and other standard music at cheap prices; retired 1887 leaving largest music publishing business in the world; gave daily concerts at the Albert hall and revived the oratorio concerts under Dr. Mackenzie at the St. James’ hall. d. Westwood house, Sydenham 11 May 1888. bur. at Lee, Kent. A short history of cheap music (1887), portrait; London Figaro 19 May 1888 p. 6, portrait.
LITTLEWOOD, William Edensor (only son of George Littlewood, printer). b. London 2 Aug. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll. Camb., 35th wrangler 1854; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1860; C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1857–61; head master of Hipperholme gr. sch. Yorkshire 1861–8; C. of Southall, Middlesex 1868–70; P.C. of Ironville, Derbyshire 1870–2; V. of St. James’s, Bath 1872–81; London Diocesan home missionary in charge of St. Thomas’s, Finsbury park, London 1881 to death; author of A garland from the parables 1858, religious verse; Essentials of English history 1862, 2 ed. 1865; Essentials of New Testament study 1872; Down in Dingyshire 1872; The story of the wanderer 1874; Bible bibliographies 1878. d. Bush End vicarage, Essex 3 Sep. 1886.
LITTON, Edward (3 son of Edward Litton of Ballyfarmoth, co. Dublin 1754–1808). b. Glasnevin, co. Dublin 1 Dec. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1832; gained five medals from historical soc. of univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar Easter term 1811; leader of North-West circuit some years, retired 1833; made very large income at the Chancery bar; K.C. 13 July 1830; M.P. Coleraine 1837–42; a master of Irish court of chancery Jany. or Feb. 1843 to death; P.C. Ireland 1868; wrote three letters in T. Martin’s A plan for the settlement of the question of the sale and transfer of land 1862. d. 32 Merrion square, Dublin 22 Jany. 1870. Irish Law Times, iv 72–4, 554 (1870).
LITTON, Edward Falconer (only son of Daniel Litton of Waterloo road, Dublin, wine merchant). b. 18 Dec. 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1864; called to Irish bar 1849, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 17 Feb. 1874; M.P. co. Tyrone 13 April 1880 to Aug. 1881, being the first Liberal who ever represented it; second comr. under Land Law (Ireland) act 1881, Aug. 1881 to Jany. 1890; judicial comr. and judge of supreme court of judicature Jany. 1890 to death, with 73 land commissioners under him; married four times; author of Life or death, the destiny of the soul in the future state 1860. d. Ardavilling house, Cloyne 27 Nov. 1890. Our Judges. By Rhadamanthus (1890) pp. 119–22, portrait; Irish Law Times, xxiv 620, 625, 633, 662 (1890); London Figaro 11 Jany. 1890 p. 8, portrait.
LITTON, Marie, stage name of Maria Lowe. b. Derbyshire 1847; first appeared on the stage at Princess’s theatre, London as Effie Deans in Boucicault’s Trial of Effie Deans 23 March 1868; played Mrs. Cureton in Alfred Thompson’s On the cards, at opening of Gaiety theatre 21 Dec. 1868, and Alice Renshaw in Byron’s Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869; lessee of Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871 to 13 March 1874; produced pieces by W. S. Gilbert, W. Marston, W. G. Wills, H. C. Merivale and P. Simpson, in which she acted secondary parts; played Zayda in W. S. Gilbert’s comedy The Wicked World, at Haymarket 4 Jany. 1873; the original Caroline Effingham in W. S. Gilbert’s Tom Cobb, at St. James’s 24 April 1875; played Mrs. Montressor in Tom Taylor’s Unequal Match, at Prince of Wales’s 29 Sep. 1877; lessee of theatre attached to Royal Aquarium, Westminster, Oct. 1878, opened the house again under name of The Imperial, Feb. 1879, played Lady Teazle, Lydia Languish and Olivia, acted Miss Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, 137 nights from Easter 1879, played Rosalind in As you like it, 100 nights; manager of the new T.R. Glasgow, Oct. 1880; played Eva de Malvoisie in Youth, at Drury Lane 6 Aug. 1881, and Daisy Brent in The Cynic, at Globe 14 Jany. 1882; the original Vere Herbert in Moths, at Globe 25 March 1882; (m. 1879 Wm. Wybrow Robertson, manager of Westminster Aquarium 1875–8). d. 6 Alfred place west, Thurloe sq. London 1 April 1884. Biograph, vi 242–3 (1881); Theatre i 189 (1878) portrait, i 255 (1880), portrait; Touchstone 8 June 1878 p. 3, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, v 537, 543 (1876), portrait, xii 265 (1879), portrait, xiii 108 (1880), portrait; Dramatic Notes (1883) 15, portrait.
LIVERPOOL, Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3 Earl of (half-brother of Robert 2 earl of Liverpool 1770–1829). b. 29 May 1784; styled hon. Cecil Jenkinson 1786–1820; served in the navy 1794–7; page of honor to George iii 1794; matric. at Ch. Ch. Oxf. 23 April 1801; cornet Surrey regt. of yeomanry 20 Aug. 1803; sec. of legation at Vienna 13 July 1804; M.P. Sandwich 1807–12; under sec. of state home department 10 Oct. 1807; under sec. of state, war and colonial department 1809–10; lieut.-col. Cinque ports regt. of militia 28 July 1811; M.P. Bridgenorth 1812–18; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–28; succeeded as 3 earl 4 Dec. 1829; high steward of Kingston-on-Thames 1829; prothonotary of county palatine of Lancaster; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; lord steward of the household 3 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; G.C.B. 11 Dec. 1845. d. Buxted park near Uckfield, Sussex 3 Oct. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 538 (1851); I.L.N. xix 450, 618 (1851).
LIVESEY, Howard. A correspondent of The Times on social questions; attacked the scheme for the Manchester ship canal under the heading of What is a port?; an enthusiastic fisherman, well known in the Lake district for 30 years; instituted the Lunesdale fish hatchery near Lancaster. d. West road, Lancaster 4 Feb. 1892.
LIVESEY, John. b. 17 May 1803; ed. Manchester sch. 1819–23 and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; C. of Trinity ch. Camb. 1827–31; incumb. of St. Philip’s, Sheffield, July 1831 to death; conveyed 5 acres of ground at Stacey Springwood to the ecclesiastical comrs. for a new parochial burial ground 1857 on which he erected a lodge and mortuary chapel, consecrated 5 July 1859; military chaplain Sheffield 1836 to death; author of Mechanics’ churches. A letter to sir R. Peel on church extension in populous towns 1840. d. Sheffield 11 Aug. 1870. Manchester School Register, iii 142 (1874).