Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton (1791-1863), Politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland and MP for Staffordshire

Politician; MP from 1812; supported Reform Bill; chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1833; supported Coercion Bill, 1834; resigned office, because of indiscreet communications to O'Connell, 1834; raised to peerage, 1835.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.