Villiers Hatton

Major-General Villiers Hatton CB (8 October 1852 – 18 June 1914) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Villiers Hatton
Born	8 October 1852 Clonard, County Wexford[1]
Died	18 June 1914
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	1st Bn Grenadier Guards Commander of British Troops in South China
Battles/wars	Mahdist War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath
Spouse(s)	Emily Burrall Hoffman ​ ​ (m. 1897; his death 1914)​

Early life

Hatton was born on 8 October 1852. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Villiers La Touche Hatton (1824–1897) and Rosia Mary de Bathe (d. 1895). His father served as High Sheriff of Wexford from 1862–63. His siblings were Rosia Mary Hatton, Madeline Frances Hatton (d. 1926), who married Maj.-Gen. Sir Henry Mackinnon (1852–1929), and William De Bathe Hatton (b. 1855).[2]

His paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral Villiers Francis Hatton and Henrietta La Touche (d. 1866). His grandfather was the son of George Hatton and Lady Isabella Seymour-Conway (1755–1825), herself the daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, a daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.[2]

Career

Hatton was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1870.[3] He was made Instructor of Musketry in 1874[4] and Adjutant of his Regiment in 1884.[5]

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards[6] and in that capacity, having landed at Dakhla on 6 August 1898,[7] took part in the Nile Expedition during the Mahdist War and was mentioned in despatches.[8] His period of service as commanding officer ended in January 1900, when he was placed on half-pay.[9]

He became Commander of British Troops in South China in 1903.[10][11] He retired in 1909[12] to Berkeley Square in London.[13]

Personal life

In 1897, he married Emily Burrall Hoffman (1861–1942).[14][15][16] Emily, an American, was the daughter of Harriet Bronson Willett (1839–1911) (granddaughter of Dr. Isaac Bronson) and Charles Burrall Hoffman (1821–1892),[17] the son of U.S. Representative Ogden Hoffman and brother of Ogden Hoffman, Jr., a U.S. federal judge, in 1860.[18][19]

References

1. The Hattons of Wexford and Ireland
2. Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd.
3. "No. 23649". The London Gazette. 26 August 1870. p. 3949.
4. "No. 24084". The London Gazette. 7 April 1874. p. 2028.
5. "No. 25350". The London Gazette. 6 May 1884. p. 2034.
6. Khartoum 1898
7. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Sudan
8. "No. 27009". The London Gazette. 30 September 1898. p. 5729.
9. "No. 27157". The London Gazette. 26 January 1900. p. 515.
10. "No. 27634". The London Gazette. 8 January 1904. p. 181.
11. Hong Kong Legislative Council
12. "No. 28304". The London Gazette. 5 November 1909. p. 8107.
13. "No. 28926". The London Gazette. 6 October 1914. p. 7968.
14. Carver, Wees, Beth; Higgins, Harvey, Medill (2013). Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 102. ISBN 9781588394910. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
15. William I
16. Social Register, New York. Social Register Association. 1908. p. 258. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
17. Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Dwight, Melatiah Everett; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Pitman, Harold Minot; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Ditmas, Charles Andrew; Mann, Conklin; Maynard, Arthur S. (1919). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
18. Hoffman, Eugene Augustus (1899). Genealogy of the Hoffman family : descendants of Martin Hoffman, with biographical notes . New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
19. "MARRIED. Hoffman -- Willett". The New York Times. 17 November 1860. Retrieved 17 October 2017.