Graduated M.D. Edinburgh in 1800 and was a well known London doctor who lived from July 1771 to 20th December 1845. He married a Mrs. Brown and they died S.P. A leading obstetrician, he was on the staff of the Finsbury Dispensary, and tradition says he improved its usefulness which a presentation of plate, voted by the Governors, seems to confirm.. This was divided between E.W.L. and Dr F.J.L. whose sons, no doubt, possess it. Lilias Dawson has the coffee pot. The Board voted £50 for the gift, a substantial sum in those days.
Dr. Halliday received much kindness from the Hallidays. A mezzotint of Lady Louisa Manners, born Halliday, is now owned by Mrs. Alexa Carter, born Lidderdale. It was, perhaps, a gift from a grateful patient as well as a relative. That is all, at present, that is known about Dr. Halliday Lidderdale.
Reprinted from: Lidderdale, Robert Halliday, An Account of the Lowland Scots Family of Lidderdale, 1950 unpublished manuscript.
Alan Tollemache of New Zealand emailed this correction: Lady Louisa Manners was born Tollemache, not Halliday. Louisa married into the Manners family. Her sister Jane married into the Halliday family.
Halliday Lidderdale's Last Will and Testament was written on February 24, 1845, and recorded on February 5, 1846, in London. The will names as beneficiaries:
Source: Public Record Office, The National Archives, United Kingdom (http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk)
Elizabeth Lidderdale's Last Will and Testament was written on October 1, 1831, and recorded on March 25, 1846, in London.
Source: Public Record Office, The National Archives, United Kingdom (http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk) |
