Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, often Thomas de Littleton, (3 April 1647 – 31 December 1709), of North Ockendon, Essex and Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire, was an English lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1709.
He served as Speaker of the House of Commons of England from 1698 to 1700, and as Treasurer of the Navy until his death.
[1] He was related to Thomas de Littleton, a 15th-century jurist and legal theorist of the Littleton/Lyttelton family.
[2] Upon his death, without issue in 1709 aged 62, the baronetcy expired,[1] but his estate passed to his first cousin Mrs Elizabeth Meynell, the daughter of his uncle Edward Littleton.
Macaulay thus sums up the character of Speaker Littleton and his relations with the Whigs: "He was one of their ablest, most zealous and most steadfast friends; and had been, both in the House of Commons and at the board of treasury, an invaluable second to Montague" (the Earl of Halifax).