Thomas Shepherd Little (1845 – 28 June 1910) was a British-Irish barrister and politician. Born in

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, Little was educated at

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, where he won a scholarship in international law and took first-class honours in the Law and History tripos of 1872. He was called to the English bar by

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in 1874 and joined the Northern Circuit, on which he practiced thirty-three years. He was the editor of the English law section of Donald Mackenzie's work on Roman law. One of the few Ulster Protestants to support

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, at the 1892 general election, Little was elected for the

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, serving until his defeat in the 1895 general election. Having acted for some time as deputy recorder for Liverpool, from 1908 until his death, he served as a stipendiary magistrate for

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Thomas Shepherd 1845 births 1910 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1892–1895 Members of the Inner Temple People from Kilkenny (city) Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century English judges Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales) Lawyers from Liverpool Lawyers from County Kilkenny Politicians from County Kilkenny