William Tatton (1659–1736) was a career soldier in the British Army who rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General.

In August 1704 he led the advance party for the Duke's bold dash to the River Danube, which led to the crushing defeat of the French and Bavarian forces at the Battle of Blenheim.

[2] After the war, the Army was involved in suppressing the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, when Tatton was responsible for bringing convicted rebels to London to be imprisoned.

Their daughter Elizabeth in 1741 married Henry Flower, 1st Viscount Ashbrook.

[8] His arms were « quarterly first and fourth ar a crescent sa second and third gu a crescent ar Crest a greyhound sejant tied at the neck to a hawthorn tree ppr by a band or ».