Author: Liddiard, William
Biography:
LIDDIARD, William (1773-1841: DIB)
He was the son of the Rev. William Stratton Liddiard of Rockley House, Ogbourn St. George, Wiltshire, and his wife Jane Craven. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in 1792 but chose to join the army as a lieutenant in the 111th Regiment of Loyal Birmingham Volunteers after just two years of study. He became a captain in the 54th Regiment in 1795 and left the army in 1796. He moved to Dublin where he married Jane Susanna Anna Wilkinson (q.v. as Liddiard) in 1798 and completed his degree at Trinity College, earning his BA in 1803. He was appointed chaplain to Charles, Duke of Richmond, who was then the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and, in 1807, vicar of Culmullin, County Meath. He became vicar of Knockmark in 1810 when that parish united with the one at Culmullin. Although he was often absent from his parish, travelling in Europe and living in Bath and Clifton, he remained the vicar of Knockmark until 1831 when he resigned in favour of his son, Henry. Jane died in 1819 and in 1822 he married Mary Ann Tirel Morin of Buckinghamshire; they had one daughter, Louisa. He was living in Clifton, Gloucestershire, at the time of his death on 11 Oct. 1841. Other publications include A Short Tract Upon the Expediency of a General Establishment of the Life-Boat (1807) and Retrospection (1841). DIB states that Mount Leinster (1819), usually attributed to Jane Liddiard, may be by him. (DIB 4 Sept. 2021; ODNB 4 Sept. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 4 Sept. 2021)