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Son of Edward Thornton Littlewood and Sylvia Maud (née Ackland)
In 1892, his father accepted the headmastership of a school in Wynberg, Cape Town, in South Africa, taking his family there.
Educated at St Paul's School in London
1903 - admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge
Senior Wrangler bracketed with James Mercer
1908 - elected a Fellow of Trinity College
October 1907 to June 1910 - worked as a Richardson Lecturer in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the membership of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 14 January 1908
He returned to Cambridge in October 1910, where he remained for the rest of his career.
He was appointed Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 1928, retiring in 1950.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1916, awarded the Royal Medal in 1929, the Sylvester Medal in 1943, and the Copley Medal in 1958.
He was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1941 to 1943 and was awarded the De Morgan Medal in 1938 and the Senior Berwick Prize in 1960.
Littlewood died on 6 September 1977.