HATTON, JOHN LIPTROT (1809-1886), English musi cal composer, was born at Liverpool on Oct. 12, 1809. He was virtually a self-taught musician, and found his way to London as a member of Macready's company at Drury Lane in 1832. Ten years after this he was appointed conductor at the same theatre for a series of English operas, and in 1843 his own first operetta, Queen of the Thames, was given with success. He had a success ful career in Austria and the United States, and from about was engaged at the Princess's theatre to provide and conduct the music for Charles Kean's Shakespearean revivals. Hatton excelled in the lyrical forms of music, and won popularity by such songs as "To Anthea," "Good-bye, Sweetheart," and "Simon the Cellarer," the first of which may be called a classic in its own way. He died at Margate on Sept. 20, 1886.