Villiers Hatton

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

Military career
Born at Clonard in County Wexford, Hatton was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1870. He was made Instructor of Musketry in 1874 and Adjutant of his Regiment in 1884.

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards and in that capacity, having landed at Dakhla on 6 August 1898, took part in the Nile Expedition during the Mahdist War and was mentioned in despatches.

He became Commander of British Troops in South China in 1903. He retired in 1909 to Berkeley Square in London.

Family
In 1897 he married Emily Hoffman.