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{{infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = [[General (United Kingdom)|General]]
| name = Sir Archibald Little
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}}
| birth_date = {{birthdate|1810|09|07|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Camberwell, London]]
| death_date = {{dda|1891|06|10|1810|09|07|df=yes}}
| death_place = Upton House, [[Tetbury]], [[Gloucestershire]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Jane Orme<br>|7 June 1854|1868|reason=}}<br>{{marriage|Elizabeth Loftus Sheldon<br>|7 April 1870|1888|reason=died}}
| children = 7, including [[Malcolm Orme Little]]
| relations = [[Malcolm Archibald Albert Little]] (grandson)<br>[[Ian Little (economist)|Ian Little]] (grandson)
}}
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Archibald Little''' [[Order of the Bath|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]].<ref name="Mosley2003">Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' [[Wilmington, Delaware]]: [[Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd]], 2003, vol. 1, p. 573.</ref>

His paternal grandparents were Matthew Little and Helen Pasley (a daughter of James Pasley).<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

==Career==
Little was commissioned as a [[Cornet (rank)|cornet]] in the [[9th Lancers]] on 4 October 1831. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1832, Captain in 1837, Major in 1850, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1854, Colonel in 1857, Major-General in 1868, Lieutenant General in 1877, and General in 1880.<ref name="britishempire"/>

He served with the 9th Lancers in the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] of 1846, and was at the [[Battle of Sobraon]]. In the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], he commanded the cavalry at the [[Siege of Lucknow]] where he was injured in the elbow by a musket-ball. He was appointed Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath for commanding a post at Dilkoosha in November 1857. At [[Kanpur]], he commanded cavalry and three Troops of Horse Artillery, and pursued the rebels of [[Gwalior]] and fighting at [[Saraighat]]. For his efforts, he was [[mentioned in dispatches]] three times. He was commanding officer of the 9th Lancers after the Indian Rebellion, from 1858 to 1861, and was appointed Colonel of the Regiment from 8 March 1875, succeeding Gen. Sir [[James Hope Grant]] and serving until his death on 10 June 1891.<ref name="britishempire">{{cite web |last1=Luscombe |first1=Stephen |title=9th Lancers |url=https://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/9thlancerslittle.htm |website=www.britishempire.co.uk |access-date=19 May 2025}}</ref>

==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 (County Dublin barony)|Rathdown]] in [[County Dublin]] in 1868, they were the parents of seven children, including:<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

* Florence Little, who married Alfred Brocklehurst, son of Henry Brocklehurst and Anne Fielden, in 1884.<Ref name="Townend1970">Townend, Peter. ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition.'' [[London]]: [[Burke's Peerage Ltd]], 1970, p. 361.</ref>
* Archibald Cosmo Little (1855–1934), a Major in the [[5th Royal Irish Lancers]]; he married Lady Guendolen ({{nee}} Chetwynd-Talbot) Chaplin, a widow of [[Edward Chaplin (politician)|Edward Chaplin]], MP for [[Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)|Lincoln]], and daughter of [[Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury]], in 1887.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* [[Malcolm Orme Little]] (1857–1931), a Brig.-Gen. who married Iris Hermione Brassey,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Iris Hermione Brassey in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=jeI2246&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=8912&gsfn=Iris%20Hermione&gsfn_x=NN&new=1&rank=1&uidh=e64&redir=false&msT=1&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=0&h=33655884&recoff=&ml_rpos=1&queryId=7f04ce6ddca97f5fe57f846e55d5af45|date=2006|website=Ancestry.com|access-date=23 May 2020}}</ref> the daughter of [[Albert Brassey]], MP for [[Banbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Banbury]], and the Hon. Matilda Bingham (a daughter of the [[John Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris|4th Baron Clanmorris]]), in 1903.<ref>{{London Gazette | date=26 January 1923 | issue=32790 |page=617}}</ref>
* Charles Hope Little (1862–1918), a Lt.-Col. in the 4th Battalion, [[Wiltshire Regiment]]; he married Mildred Dora Ward.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Archibald Oliver Little (1863–1920)<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Violet Edith Little (b. 1865)<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Jean Orme Little (b. 1868), who married Maj. Francis Hubert Wise in 1898.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

After her death, he married Elizabeth ({{nee}} Loftus) Sheldon (1824–1888),<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth, Lady Little |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp94452/elizabeth-lady-little |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=[[National Portrait Gallery, London]] |access-date=19 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> 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 Sheldon (politician)|Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon]], MP for [[South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)|South Warwickshire]]).<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

Elizabeth, Lady Little, died in 1888 at Upton House in [[Tetbury Upton|Tetbury]], [[Gloucestershire]]. Upton House was a Neoclassical country house built in 1752, whose design is usually attributed to [[William Halfpenny]], of Bristol.<ref name="historicengland">{{cite web |title=UPTON HOUSE, Tetbury Upton - 1155320 |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1155320?section=official-list-entry |website=historicengland.org.uk |publisher=[[Historic England]] |access-date=19 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Musson2017">{{cite news |last1=Musson |first1=Jeremy |title=Upton House: A beautiful 1750 creation by Halfpenny, updated in a manner he'd have loved |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/upton-house-how-halfpennys-1750-creation-was-brought-into-the-21st-century-165450 |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]] |date=17 September 2017 |language=en}}</ref> Sir Archibald died on 10 June 1891, also at Upton House.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

===Descendants===
Through his son Malcolm, he was a grandfather of [[Malcolm Archibald Albert Little]] (1904–1944), a Colonel in the 9th Lancers, and [[Ian Little (economist)|Ian Little]] (1918–2012), a leading economist.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>

Through his daughter Florence, he was a grandfather of Nancye Brocklehurst (d. 1977), who married [[Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough]] (a son of [[Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough]] and [[Marcia Pelham, Countess of Yarborough|Hon. Marcia Lane-Fox]]).<ref name="Fox-Davies1910">{{cite book |last1=Fox-Davies |first1=Arthur Charles |title=Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour |date=1910 |publisher=T.C. & E.C. Jack |page=194 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Armorial_Families/M2VHAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA194 |access-date=19 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp94451/sir-archibald-little Sir Archibald Little (1810-1891), Army officer] at the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]]

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