Hatton, John (Liptrott) (1808–1886)

English composer. He was almost wholly self-taught in music. He settled in London in 1832, became attached to Drury Lane Theatre as composer in 1842, and in 1844 visited Vienna, Austria, to produce his opera Pascal Bruno. In 1848 he went to the USA and later became music director of the Prince's Theatre, London, where he wrote much incidental music for Edmund Kean's productions.

Works Stage operas Pascal Bruno (1844) and Rose, or Love's Ransom (1864); operetta The Queen of the Thames; incidental music for Shakespeare's Macbeth, Henry VIII, Richard II, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing, Sheridan's Pizarro, an adaptation of Goethe's Faust and other plays.

Other Mass, two services, eight anthems; oratorio Hezekiah; cantata Robin Hood; over 150 songs, including To Anthea (Herrick); many part-songs.