Born September 8, 1917, in Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and educated at Rottingdean School and Haileybury College, England to which his parents had retired. He joined Grindlays Bank, India, and when called up there was posted to the Poonah Horse, the last cavalry regiment to be mechanised, and was substantive Captain E.C.O. on demobilisation. On rejoining Grindlays in 1947 he was appointed manager of their Quetta branch and in 1949 of their Dalhousie Square branch in Calcutta. He resigned from the Bank to enter the jute trade and emigrated to the U.S.A. as an importer, living firstly in New York and then Dalton, Georgia, a centre of carpet manufacture. He retired in 1982.

He married, On April 24, 1948, Joan, only daughter of Col. Cecil C.T. Reading and widow of Sqn. Ldr. J.H. Kennard, D.F.C. posth. She was a Section Officer (Cipher) W.A.A.F. They have a daughter, Jacqueline, and two sons, James Robert Halliday, and Tancred Charles MacKenzie.

Reprinted from:

• Lidderdale, Robert Halliday, An Account of the Lowland Scots Family of Lidderdale, 1950 unpublished manuscript.
• Lidderdale, Halliday Adair, The Descendants of John Lidderdale 1783-1845, 1988 unpublished manuscript.

Tancred and Joan wedding, April 24, 1948.