LIDDERDALE, Thomas William (2 son of Thomas Robertson Liddersdale of St. Mary’s isle, Kirkcudbright, ensign 6 W.I. regt.) b. 1830; in British museum 30 years, latterly as a first class assistant in printed book department; a student in Scandinavian literature and Icelandic bibliography; assisted P. H. M’Kerlie in his History of Galloway 5 vols. 1870–9; compiled Catalogue of the books printed in Iceland from A.D. 1578 to 1880 in the library of the British museum. 1885; taken ill in the street, went into the shop of Daniel Margetts metal worker 16 York st. Covent Garden, where he fell on the floor, conveyed to Charing Cross hospital, where he d. same day 4 Sep. 1884.
LIDDON, Henry Parry (eld. son of Matthew Liddon, captain R.N., d. 1869 aged 77). b. North Stoneham, Hampshire 20 Aug. 1829; ed. at Lyme Regis, Dorset 1839–41 and at King’s coll. sch. London 1841–6; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1846, student 1847 to death; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, B.D., D.D. and D.C.L. 1870, Johnson theological scholar 1851; C. of Wantage 1852–4; vice principal of Cuddesdon theological college 1854–9; vice principal of St. Edmund’s hall, Oxford 1859–61; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1864, preb. of Salisbury 1864–70; select preacher to univ. of Oxf. 1863, 1870, 1877 and 1884; Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxf. June 1870 to 1882; gave a series of lectures in St. James’s hall, Piccadilly, London 1870; member of council of Keble coll. Oxf. 1870 to death; canon of St. Paul’s cath. 27 April 1870 to death, chancellor 1886 to death; the foremost preacher in the ch. of England and the most powerful champion of the high church party; took a leading part in the Bonn conferences 10–16 Aug. 1875; select preacher at Cambridge 1884 and 1889, hon. LL.D. June 1889; elected bishop of Edinburgh, June 1886 but declined the charge; author of Some words for God, sermons before the university of Oxford 1865, republished as Sermons before the university 8 ed. 1884; The divinity of Jesus Christ, eight lectures before the university on the foundation of John Bampton 1867, 14 ed. 1890; Some elements of religion, Lent lectures 1872, 5 ed. 1885; Sermons preached before the university. Second series 1879, 4 ed. 1887; Selections from the writing of H. P. Liddon 1882, 2 ed. 1883; Edward Bouverie Pusey, a sermon 1884, 2 ed. 1884; Easter in St. Paul’s, sermons on the resurrection 2 vols. 1885, 2 ed. 1891; Forty sermons preached in St. Paul’s, London. Four series 1886; Advent in St. Paul’s, sermons 2 vols. 1889, 2 ed. 1889; The magnificat, sermons in St. Paul’s 1889, 3 ed. 1891, and 60 other works. d. Claremont crescent, Weston-super-Mare 9 Sep. 1890. bur. crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 16 Sep.; portrait by G. Richmond at Keble coll., and another by H. Herkomer in Ch. Ch. hall. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 141–52, 2 Ser. (1875) 396–400; F. Arnold’s Our bishops and deans, ii 153–66 (1875); Church quarterly review, Oct. 1890 pp. 212–18; Temple Bar, lxxii 334–8 (1884); The Biograph, v 360–2 (1881); I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p. 353, portrait.
LIEBSTEIN, Hermann (5 son of David Liebstein of Lemberg, Gallicia, Austria, merchant). b. Austria 1829; naturalised in England 16 June 1855; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1858; equity draftsman; author of Notes of Expository addresses on the book of Revelation 1876; Eternal life, where to find it and how to obtain it 1882. d. at his house, 40 Highbury hill near London 13 July 1882.
LIECHTENSTEIN, Marie, Princess of (adopted daughter of Henry 4 baron Holland who d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859, and known as Miss Marie Fox). b. 21 Dec. 1850; (m. at pro-cathedral, Kensington 27 June 1872 Prince Aloys or Louis Liechtenstein 2 son of François prince de Liechtenstein 1802–87, he was b. Prague 18 Nov. 1846, lieut. of hussars, a knight of Malta, secretary of legation); author of Holland House 2 vols. 1874; Nora, a novel taken from the German of the baroness F. Von Brackel 1877. d. Burgstall in Styria 26 Dec. 1878. Morning Post 28 June 1872 p. 5.
LIEFDE, Jacob B. de (of Dutch parentage). b. 1847; ed. in Holland; war correspondent of the Daily News with the German army outside Paris and during the Commune 1870–71; author of The beggars or the founders of the Dutch republic 1868, 5 ed. 1883; Walter’s escape or the capture of Breda 1870; The great Dutch admirals 1873; Hereditary bondsmen, or is it all in vain 3 vols. 1875; The maid of Stralsund 1876; A brave resolve or the siege of Stralsund 2 ed. 1883. d. Twickenham, Middlesex 6 Feb. 1878.
LIFFORD, James Hewitt, 3 Viscount (1 son of 2 viscount Lifford 1750–1830). b. 29 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1804; student Inner Temple 1805; succeeded 15 April 1830; author of Ireland and the Irish church 1842; Thoughts on the present state of Ireland 1849. d. Brighton 22 April 1855.
LIGAR, Charles Whybrow. b. Ceylon 1809; ed. Sandhurst; 2 lieut. royal engineers, resigned; engaged on ordnance survey in Ireland till 1840; surveyor general New Zealand 1840–56; col. and commandant of New Zealand militia, took part in the war at the Bay of Islands; surveyor general of Victoria, Australia 1858, retired on a pension 1869; settled in Texas. d. 1879.
LIGGINS, Joseph. b. London 1791; West India merchant and ship owner, 37 Mincing lane, London 1830 to death; chairman of Southampton dock co. nearly 20 years; author of A refutation of the calumnies circulated by the Anti-Slavery agency committee against the West India planters. Signed Joseph Liggins, Mincing lane, London 1833. d. Homer villa, 33 Addison road, Kensington 22 June 1860.
LIGGINS, Joseph Henry (son of a baker of Nuneaton, Warwickshire). b. 1800; educ. at Cambridge but was rusticated; a tutor; resided in Isle of Man and at Liverpool and was on the staff of a Liverpool newspaper; borrowed money from all his friends, which he never repaid; claimed to have written Adam Bede 1859 and on the strength of this claim received many sums of money; was found destitute in lodgings and removed by the relieving officer to Chilvers Coton workhouse near Nuneaton, where after some months he died 29 May 1872 aged 72. The Times 2, 6, 11, 13 Feb. 1885; Cross’s Life of G. Eliot, i 449, ii 97–100, 107, 136 (1885).
LIGHT, Sir Henry (son of Wm. Light of the Madras civil service). b. 1783; ed. at Rugby and Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, captain 20 Dec. 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; lieut. governor of Antigua 13 April 1836; governor and commander in chief of British Guiana 1 May 1838 to 1844, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Lebanon and Cyprus in 1814. 1818. d. Falmouth 3 March 1870. I.L.N. lvi 307 (1870).