Career
In August 1704 he led the advance party for the Duke"s bold dash to the River Danube, which led to the crushing defeat of the French and Bavarian forces at the Battle of Blenheim. After this victory, Tatton was made Colonel of the 24th Regiment of Foot, the South Wales Borderers, a post he held until 1708. After the war, the Army was involved in suppressing the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, when Tatton was responsible for bringing convicted rebels to London to be imprisoned.
He finally reached the rank of Lieutenant-General.
From 24 November 1729 until his death, he was Colonel of The Buffs, the 3rd Regiment of Foot. He died in June 1736 and was buried at Hillingdon in Middlesex.
His will was proved in London on 19 June 1736. Their daughter Elizabeth in 1741 married Henry Flower, 1st Viscount Ashbrook.
His arms were « quarterly first and fourth ar a crescent sa second and third gu a crescent ar Crest a greyhound sejant tied at the neck to a hawthorn tree ppr by a band or ».
