Timothy Littleton

Sir Timothy Littleton ( c 1608 – 2 April 1679 ) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1670.

Littleton was the son of Sir Edward Littleton of Henley Shropshire and his wife Mary Walter, daughter of Edward Walter of Ludlow. His father was chief justice of North Wales.^[1] Littleton became a lawyer and was serjeant-at-law.

In 1660, Littleton was elected member of parliament for Ludlow in the Convention Parliament.^[2] He was re-elected MP for Ludlow in 1661 in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1670 when he became Baron of the Exchequer.

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Littleton was a judge at the Fire Court set up under the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 to hear cases relating to property destroyed in the fire. The artist John Michael Wright was commissioned to paint portraits of all 22 judges that had sat in the Fire Court.^[3] He was knighted at Whitehall on 29 June 1671.^[4]

Littleton died at the age of 70 and was buried in Temple Church.

References

[1] William Betham, The Baronetage of England

[HOP-2] History of Parliament Online – Littleton, Timothy

[3] 'Book 2, Ch. 15: Cheap Ward', A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark (1773), pp. 587-593. Date accessed: 4 April 2011

[4] Knights of England

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v t e Judges appointed under the Fire of London Disputes Act 1666
Judges	Sir John Archer Sir Robert Atkyns Sir Orlando Bridgman Sir William Ellys Sir Heneage Finch Sir Matthew Hale Sir Timothy Littleton Sir William Morton Sir Francis North Sir Richard Rainsford Sir Christopher Turnor Sir Edward Turnour Sir Thomas Twisden Sir Thomas Tyrrell Sir John Vaughan Sir William Wilde Sir Hugh Wyndham
Other	John Michael Wright (Artist)