{{Short description|British Army general}} {{for|the Irish Whig politician|Villiers Francis Hatton}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Major-General | name = Villiers Hatton | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} | image = | caption = | birth_date = 8 October 1852 | death_date = 18 June 1914 | burial_place = | birth_place = Clonard, County Wexford<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nspictou/elect_text/wexfordhattons.html The Hattons of Wexford and Ireland]</ref> | death_place = | nickname = | spouse = {{marriage|Emily Burrall Hoffman|1897}} | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = | rank = Major-General | unit = | commands = 1st Bn Grenadier Guards<br>Commander of British Troops in South China | battles = Mahdist War | awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }} Major-General '''Villiers Hatton''' CB (8 October 1852 – 18 June 1914) was Commander of British Troops in South China.
==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 to 1863. 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).<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
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.<ref name="Mosley2003">{{cite book|last1=Mosley|first1=Charles|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes|date=2003|publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd.|location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A}}</ref>
==Career== Hatton was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1870.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23649|page=3949|date=26 August 1870}}</ref> He was made Instructor of Musketry in 1874<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24084|page=2028|date=7 April 1874}}</ref> and Adjutant of his Regiment in 1884.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25350|page=2034|date=6 May 1884}}</ref>
He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards<ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3042C%2F45 Khartoum 1898]</ref> and in that capacity, having landed at Dakhla on 6 August 1898,<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBR_enGB315GB316&q=%22Villiers+Hatton%22&start=40&sa=N Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Sudan]</ref> took part in the Nile Expedition during the Mahdist War and was mentioned in despatches.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27009|page=5729|date=30 September 1898}}</ref> His period of service as commanding officer ended in January 1900, when he was placed on half-pay.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27157|page=515|date=26 January 1900}}</ref>
He became Commander of British Troops in South China in 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27634|page=181|date=8 January 1904}}</ref><ref>[http://www.legco.gov.hk/1905/h050629.pdf Hong Kong Legislative Council]</ref> He retired in 1909<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28304|page=8107|date=5 November 1909}}</ref> to Berkeley Square in London.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28926|page=7968|date=6 October 1914}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 1897, he married Emily Burrall Hoffman (1861–1942).<ref name="Carver2013">{{cite book|last1=Carver|first1=Wees, Beth|last2=Higgins|first2=Harvey, Medill|title=Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=2013|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9781588394910|page=102|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQaHAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>[http://www.william1.co.uk/t18.htm William I]</ref><ref name="SR1908">{{cite book|title=Social Register, New York|date=1908|publisher=Social Register Association|page=258|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H2JEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA258|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Emily, an American, was the daughter of Harriet Bronson Willett (1839–1911) (granddaughter of Dr. Isaac Bronson) and Charles Burrall Hoffman (1821–1892),<ref name="Greene1919">{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Richard Henry|last2=Stiles|first2=Henry Reed|last3=Dwight|first3=Melatiah Everett|last4=Morrison|first4=George Austin|last5=Mott|first5=Hopper Striker|last6=Totten|first6=John Reynolds|last7=Pitman|first7=Harold Minot|last8=Forest|first8=Louis Effingham De|last9=Ditmas|first9=Charles Andrew|last10=Mann|first10=Conklin|last11=Maynard|first11=Arthur S.|title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record|date=1919|publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YdgUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA39|access-date=17 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> the son of U.S. Representative Ogden Hoffman and brother of Ogden Hoffman, Jr., a U.S. federal judge, in 1860.<ref name="HoffmanGeni">{{cite book|last1=Hoffman|first1=Eugene Augustus|title=Genealogy of the Hoffman family : descendants of Martin Hoffman, with biographical notes ..|date=1899|publisher=New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/genealogyofhoffm00hoff|access-date=22 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="HoffmanWedding1860">{{cite news|title=MARRIED. Hoffman -- Willett|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1860/11/17/news/married.html|access-date=17 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=17 November 1860}}</ref>
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