Family and Education
b. c. 1632, o.s. of Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Bt., of Pillaton Hall by 1st w. Hester, da. of Sir William Courten, merchant, of London. educ. Shrewsbury 1644. m. (1) c.1650, Mary (d.1665), da. of Sir Walter Wrottesley, 1st Bt., of Wrottesley, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 6da.; (2) by 1674, his cos. Joyce, da. of Edward (or George) Littleton of Shuston, Church Eaton, 5s. 2da. suc. fa. Aug. 1657.Gentry of Staffs. (Staffs. Rec. Soc. ser. 4, ii), 21; J. E. Auden, Shrewsbury Sch. Reg. 26; Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 157-8.
Offices Held
Commr. for oyer and terminer, Oxford circuit July 1660; j.p. Staffs. July 1660 – Mar. 1688, Oct. 1688 – d.; dep. lt. Staffs. c. Aug. 1660–80, 1689 – 1703, Herefs. by 1701–?3; commr. for assessment, Staffs. Aug. 1660–80, Herefs. and Staffs. 1689 – 90; capt. vol. horse, Staffs. by 1662, commr. for recusants 1675.
Gent. of privy chamber 1671 – 85, 1692–1702.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Pillaton Hall; The Moat House, Tamworth, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
LITTLETON, Sir Edward (c.1632-1709)
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Estates
Oxford 1644
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