Sir Archibald Little

General Sir Archibald Little GCB (7 September 1810 – 10 June 1891) was a British Army officer who was Colonel of the 9th Lancers.

Early life Little was born in 1810 at Camberwell, London. He was the son of Archibald Little of Shabden Park, Surrey, and Agnes Oliver. Among his siblings was Helen Little (wife of Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 3rd Baronet), Jane Little (wife of James St Clair, 14th Lord Sinclair), and Capt. James Lockhart Little of the 81st Regiment of Foot.

His paternal grandparents were Matthew Little and Helen Pasley (a daughter of James Pasley).

Personal life On 7 June 1854 at St James's Church, Piccadilly, London, Little was married to Jane Orme (1830–1868), daughter of Malcolm Orme and Jane Bonsor. Before her death at Rathdown in County Dublin in 1868, they were the parents of seven children, including: Archibald Cosmo Little (1855–1934), a Major in the 5th Royal Irish Lancers; he married Lady Guendolen ( Chetwynd-Talbot) Chaplin, a widow of Edward Chaplin, MP for Lincoln, and daughter of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1887. the daughter of Albert Brassey, MP for Banbury, and the Hon. Matilda Bingham (a daughter of the 4th Baron Clanmorris), in 1903. Charles Hope Little (1862–1918), a Lt.-Col. in the 4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment; he married Mildred Dora Ward. daughter of Lt.-Gen. William Francis Bentinck Loftus, Colonel of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot, and Margaret Harriet Langrishe (a daughter of Very Rev. James Langrishe), on 7 April 1870 at Holy Trinity Church, in Westcott, Surrey. Elizabeth was widowed from Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon (son of Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon, MP for South Warwickshire). Sir Archibald died on 10 June 1891, also at Upton House.