(1829-1890) Divine, son of a captain in the navy, was born at North Stoneham, Hants, and educated at King's College School, London, and Oxford. e took orders 1853, was Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College 1854-59, Prebendary of Salisbury 1864, and Canon of St. Paul's 1870. He was also Ireland Professor of Exegesis at Oxford 1870-82. In 1866 he delivered his Bampton Lectures on The Divinity of Our Lord, and came to be recognised as one of the ablest and most eloquent representatives of the High Church party. His sermons in St. Paul's were among the leading features of the religious life of London. Liddon was an ardent protagonist in the various controversies of his time bearing upon ecclesiastical and moral questions.