Villiers Hatton

Hatton was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1870.^[3] He was made Instructor of Musketry in 1874^[4] and Adjutant of his Regiment in 1884.^[5]

He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards^[6] and in that capacity, having landed at Dakhla on 6 August 1898,^[7] took part in the Nile Expedition during the Mahdist War and was mentioned in despatches.^[8] His period of service as commanding officer ended in January 1900, when he was placed on half-pay.^[9]

He became Commander of British Troops in South China in 1903.^[10][11] He retired in 1909^[12] to Berkeley Square in London.^[13]

In 1897, he married Emily Burrall Hoffman (1861–1942).^[14][15][16] Emily, an American, was the daughter of Harriet Bronson Willett (1839–1911) (granddaughter of Dr. Isaac Bronson) and Charles Burrall Hoffman (1821–1892),^[17] the son of U.S. Representative Ogden Hoffman and brother of Ogden Hoffman, Jr., a U.S. federal judge, in 1860.^[18][19]