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BARON EDWARTI See also:JOHN See also:LITTLETON See also:HATHERTON (1791–1863)  , was See also:born on the 18th of See also:March 1791 and was educated at See also:Rugby school and at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford . He was the only son of Moreton Walhouse of See also:Hatherton, See also:Stafford-See also:shire; but in 1812, in accordance with the will of his See also:great-See also:uncle See also:Sir See also:Edward See also:Littleton, See also:Bart . (d . 1812), he took the name of Littleton . From 1812 to 1832 he was member of See also:parliament for See also:Staffordshire and from 1832 to 1835 for the See also:southern See also:division of that See also:county, being specially prominent in the See also:House of See also:Commons as an See also:advocate of See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation . In See also:January 1833, against his own wish, he was put forward by the Radicals as a See also:candidate for the See also:office of See also:speaker, but he was not elected and in May 1833 he became See also:chief secretary to the See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland in the See also:ministry of See also:Earl See also:Grey . His duties in this capacity brought him frequently into conflict with O'Connell, but he was obviously unequal to the great Irishman, although he told his colleagues to " leave me to See also:manage See also:Dan." He had to See also:deal with the vexed and difficult question of the Irish See also:tithes on which the See also:government was divided, and with his colleagues had to See also:face the problem of a new See also:coercion See also:act . Rather hastily he made a compact with O'Connell on the See also:assumption that the new act could not contain certain clauses which were See also:part of the old act . The clauses, however, were inserted; O'Connell charged Littleton with deception; and in See also:July 1834 Grey, Althorp (afterwards Earl See also:Spencer) and the Irish secretary resigned . The two latter were induced to serve under the new premier, Lord See also:Melbourne, and they remained in office until Melbourne was dismissed in See also:November 1834 . In 1835 Littleton was created See also:Baron Hatherton, and he died at his Staffordshire See also:residence, Teddesley See also:Hall, on the 4th of May 1863 . In 1888 his See also:grandson, Edward See also:George Littleton (b .

1842), became 3rd Baron Hatherton . See Hatherton's See also:

Memoirs and See also:Correspondence See also:relating to See also:Political Occurrences, See also:June–July 1834, edited by H . See also:Reeve (1872); and Sir S . See also:Walpole, See also:History of See also:England, vol. iii . (189o) .

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