Born 13 December 1866, second son of Thomas Albert Littler, law stationer, of Manchester, and Mary Meredith his wife. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and entered Owens College after private tuition with the Rev R M Leigh, of Norbreek near Blackpool. He was afterwards elected an Associate of Owens College. Littler served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary, Burton-on-Trent, and under Sir William Japp Sinclair, MD, at the Manchester Southern Hospital for Diseases of Women, and at the Royal Infirmary under Walter Whitehead, FRCS Ed. He settled in practice at Southport, Lancashire, about 1900 and was elected in 1905 surgeon to the Southport Infirmary, served as chairman of the medical board in 1924-5, and retired as consulting surgeon. He was a member of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, served as the first secretary of the Southport Medical Society and was its president in 1910, and president of the Southport division of the British Medical Association in 1912. After retiring he lived at Hatherwood, Grange Road, Heswall, Cheshire. Littler married on 23 February 1909 Catherine Campbell Darroch, who survived him with two sons. He died on 22 October 1941.