Major-General Villiers Hatton CB (8 October 1852 – 18 June 1914) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

He was the son of Lt.-Col. Villiers La Touche Hatton (1824–1897) and Rosia Mary de Bathe (d. 1895).

[2] His paternal grandparents were Vice-Admiral Villiers Francis Hatton and Henrietta La Touche (d. 1866).

His grandfather was the son of George Hatton and Lady Isabella Seymour-Conway (1755–1825), herself the daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, a daughter of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton.

[5] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Grenadier Guards[6] and in that capacity, having landed at Dakhla on 6 August 1898,[7] took part in the Nile Expedition during the Mahdist War and was mentioned in despatches.