Two Baronetcies have been created in the Baronetage of England for members of the Littleton family.

The Littleton family had their origins in South Lyttleton, near Evesham

Evesham

Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...

, Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

. Thomas de Littleton

Thomas de Littleton

Sir Thomas de Littleton was an English judge and legal writer.-Early life:He was born, it is supposed, at Frankley Manor House, Worcestershire, England in about 1407. Littleton’s surname was that of his mother, who was the sole daughter and heiress of Thomas de Littleton, Lord of Frankley. She...

 was appointed a judge at the Court of Common Pleas

Court of Common Pleas (England)

The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common...

 in 1464 and was created a Knight of the Bath

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 in 1475. His son Richard married Joan Winesbury heiress of Pillaton Hall and his grandson Edward, who was appointed Constable of Stafford Castle

Stafford Castle

Stafford Castle lies two miles to the west of Stafford, just off the A518 Stafford-to-Newport Road, and can be seen from the M6 motorway. The stone building is an important early example of a 19th century Gothic Revival Keep. The structure was built on the foundations of its medieval predecessor...

 for life, was High Sheriff of Staffordshire

High Sheriff of Staffordshire

This is a list of the High Sheriffs of Staffordshire.The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred...

 on three occasions. All subsequent Pillaton heirs were named Edward.

The Baronetcy of Littleton of Pillaton Hall was created for Edward Littleton

Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Littleton was a 17th century English Baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edward Littleton Kt. and Mary Fisher of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire and representative of that notable family of Cavalier sympathies...

, of Pillaton Hall

Pillaton Hall

Pillaton Hall was an historic house located in Pillaton, Staffordshire, just outside of Penkridge, England. For more than two centuries it was the seat of the Littleton family, a family of local landowners and politicians.-Origins and history:...

, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...

, in 1627.

The Baronetcy became extinct in 1812 on the death of the 4th Baronet, who had moved the seat of the family to Teddesley Hall

Teddesley Hall

Teddesley Hall was a large Georgian country house located close to Penkridge in Staffordshire, now demolished. It was the main seat firstly of the Littleton Baronets and then of the Barons Hatherton...

 and whose heir was Edward John Walhouse

Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton PC, FRS , was a British politician, of first the Canningite Tories and later the Whigs. He had a long political career, active in each of the Houses of Parliament in turn over a period of forty years...

.

The Baronetcy of Littleton of Stoke Milburgh was created in 1642 for Adam Littleton, a descendant of Thomas Litleton of Speechly

Spetchley Park

Spetchley Park in the hamlet of Spetchley, near Worcester, England, has belonged to the Berkeley family, who also own Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, since it was first built in 1606....

, Worcestershire, a younger son of Thomas de Lyttleton (above) ; this baronetcy became extinct upon the death of Sir Thomas Littleton, sometime Speaker of the British House of Commons

Speaker of the British House of Commons

The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...

, in 1709.

Ancestors

• Thomas de Littleton
  Thomas de Littleton
  Sir Thomas de Littleton was an English judge and legal writer.-Early life:He was born, it is supposed, at Frankley Manor House, Worcestershire, England in about 1407. Littleton’s surname was that of his mother, who was the sole daughter and heiress of Thomas de Littleton, Lord of Frankley. She...
  
   (died 1481)
• Richard Littleton (died 9 Henry VIII)
• Sir Edward Littleton (died 1558)
• Sir Edward Littleton (died 1574) - sheriff of Staffordshire 1563
• Sir Edward Littleton (died 1610) - MP for Stafford 1597
• Sir Edward Littleton (died 1630) - MP for Stafford 1624

Baronets

• Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Littleton was a 17th century English Baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edward Littleton Kt. and Mary Fisher of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire and representative of that notable family of Cavalier sympathies...
  
   (c. 1599 – c. 1657)
• Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet (c. 1632–1709)
• Sir Edward Littleton, 3rd Baronet (d. 1742)
• Sir Edward Littleton, 4th Baronet (1727–1812)

Littleton Baronets, of Stoke Milburgh, Shropshire (1642)

• Sir Adam Littleton, 1st Baronet (d. 1647)
• Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1681....
  
   (c. 1621–1681)
• Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet , often Thomas de Littleton, was a British statesman. He was the son of Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet and his wife and cousin Anne Littleton....
  
  (1647–1709)