LIDDON, HENRY PARRY English divine, was the son of a naval captain and was born at North Stoneham, Hampshire, on Aug. 20,1829. He was educated at King's College school, London, and at Christ Church, Oxford. As vice-principal of the theological college at Cuddesdon (1854-59) and as vice principal of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, he withstood the liberal reaction against Tractarianism, which had set in of ter Newman's secessiv in 1845. In 1864 he became prebendary of Salisbury cathedral. In 1866 he delivered his Bampton Lectures on the Divinity of Our Lord (13th ed., 1889), which established his fame. In 1870 he was made canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, where his preaching attracted vast crowds. In 1870 he had also been made Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxford, and the com bination of the two appointments gave him extensive influence over the Church of England. With Dean Church he may be said to have restored the waning influence of the Tractarian school, and he succeeded in popularizing the opinions which, in the hands of Pusey and Keble, had appealed to thinkers and scholars. His
forceful spirit was equally conspicuous in his opposition to the Church Discipline Act of 1874, and in his denunciation of the Bul garian atrocities of 1876. In 1882 he resigned his professorship. He travelled in Palestine and Egypt, and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Dellinger at Munich. In 1886 he became chancellor of St. Paul's, and it is said that he declined more than one offer of a bishopric. He died on Sept. 9, 189o.
Liddon's great influence was due to his personal fascination and the beauty of his pulpit oratory rather than to any high qualities of intellect. See J. Johnston, Life and Letters of Dean Liddon.