▶Date of birth: 7 November 1850         Place of birth: Waltham Abbey, Essex

▶Father:   Edmund Littler    Mother: Mercy Anna Pugh

▶Spouse(s):  Hannah Frances Lister    Date(s) of marriage:  5 June 1878     Place(s) of marriage: St Leonard’s on Sea

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Poor health dogged the life of Frederick Charles Littler, whose life in the Church began with parochial responsibilities in Gloucestershire but was soon after spent largely abroad in soften climates. Littler was born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, in 1850, the eldest son of Edmund Littler, a pattern-designer, printer, and stationer, and his wife Mercy Anna (née Pugh), of Walton Abbey in Essex.

Littler began his working life as an Accountant in a Life Assurance Office in Waltham Abbey. He must have reviewed his priorities, and he matriculated at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1876, BA 1880, MA 1883, and was ordained Deacon in 1879, Priest (both Gloucester and Bristol) in 1880. In 1878 he married Hannah Frances, eldest daughter of John S. Lister, of Saleby Grange, near Alford, Lincolnshire, and the widow of Charles Pearson Elliot, of the Bengal Civil Service; they had no children, but she already had two daughters.

In 1879 he was licensed Curate of Henbury, Gloucestershire, until 1883. After this he spent some time abroad, to recruit his health. In 1884 he was appointed Vicar of St John the Baptist, Woking, until he moved in 1886 to become Rector of Weston, Nottinghamshire 1886-95. In that year he was appointed by the Colonial and Continental Church Society to act as English Chaplain at Hyères in France, on the Mediterranean coast, until 1903; he was appointed initially for the winter season (serving about thirty English families excluding hotel visitors) between 1899 and 1903 when in England he also maintained a residence in Cheltenham, at Pittville Lawn Villa (now 39 Pittville Lawn).

After living in France for several years, he moved to Alassio, Italy, again on the Mediterranean coast, where he served as Chaplain 1903-4. Returning to England he took up residence in Bournemouth, where he died, after a long illness, in early 1915, at the age of sixty-four. His estate at death was sworn at just over £3,330.

▶Moved to Pittville from:  Hyères, France      Moved from Pittville to: Alassio, Italy

▶Date of death:  10 January 1915      Place of death: Thornleigh, Bournemouth

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▶Notes: Bristol Times 29 October 1883       ID: 3832

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden