Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Litleton, Edward
Lit(t)leton, Edward (s. Edward), of Salop, arm. Christ Church, matric. 28 Nov., 1606, aged 17; B.A. 28 April, 1609, created D.C.L. 31 Jan., 1642-3; then keeper of the great seal and secretary of the council to the king, created Baron Littleton, of Mounsloe 18 Feb., 1641, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1617, treasurer 1624-8, M.P. Bishop's Castle 1614, Leominster 1625, 1626, Carnarvon 1628-9, chief justice North Wales 1621, recorder of London 1631, and counsellor to the university, solicitor-general 1634-40, knighted 6 June, 1635, serjeant-at-law, 1640, and chief justice common pleas 1640, P.C. 1640, first commissioner of the treasury 1643; died 27 Aug., 1645, buried in Christ Church cathedral. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary & Ath. iii. 175.