About Sir Adolphus Liddell
Lived 1818 – 1885 (aged 67). Sir Adolphus Liddell was a barrister.
The Honourable Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell (15 January 1818 – 27 June 1885) was a British civil servant who was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1867 until his death in 1885. The son of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, Liddell was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in Literae humaniores in 1838, before being elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1844, took silk in 1861, and was created a KCB in 1880.
He was the father of the society figure and lawyer Adolphus George Charles Liddell and the maternal grandfather of Sir Alan Lascelles.
He was buried in Sheen Cemetery.
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Sir Adolphus Liddell was born on 15 January 1818.
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Sir Adolphus Liddell was a barrister.
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