Richard Frederick Littledale

Richard Frederick Littledale (14 September 1833 – 11 January 1890) was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer.

Life The fourth son of John Littledale, an auctioneer, he was born in Dublin on 14 September 1833. On 15 October 1850 he entered Trinity College Dublin, was elected a Scholar in 1852, graduated B.A. as a first class in classics, and in 1855 obtained the senior Berkeley gold medal and the first divinity prize. He proceeded at Dublin M.A. in 1858, and LL.B. and LL.D. in 1862, and at Oxford on 5 July 1862 D.C.L. comitatis causa.

He was curate of St. Matthew in Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk, from 1856 to 1857. From 1857 to 1861 he was curate of St Mary the Virgin, Crown Street, Soho, London, where he took an interest in the House of Charity.

He died at 9 Red Lion Square, London, on 11 January 1890. A reredos to his memory was erected in the chapel at St. Katharine's, 32 Queen Square, London, in March 1891.

Works Littledale was a contributor to periodicals: Kottabos (a college miscellany, published at Trinity in Dublin), Notes and Queries, the Daily Telegraph, the Church Quarterly Review, and The Academy. He was the author of books and pamphlets in support of Anglicanism, in opposition to Roman Catholicism.

He completed after the death in 1866 of the author, John Mason Neale, who was a close friend, Neale's Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers, vols. ii. iii. and iv., 1868–74, and later edited two other editions of the entire work. He was also joint author with Neale of Liturgy of SS. Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, Basil, 1868–9.