LIDDON, HENRY PARRY. - Anglican canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and preacher, b. at North Stoneham (Hampshire) on 20 Aug. 1829, d. at Weston-super-Mare on 9 Sept. 1890. At 17 he was at Oxford, where he had begun his university studies, and came under the influence of the Tractarian movement. In 1852 he was ordained deacon and in 1859 he became a minister of the Anglican Church.
Despite his success in the ministry, in 1854 he was appointed vice-principal of the theological college of Cuddesdon; but his teaching, with its Romanizing tendency, aroused suspicions and he was forced to resign (Easter 1859). Having returned to Oxford as vice-principal of St. Edmund's Hall, he successfully gave a course of lectures on the New Testament for about ten years. During this period he formed a close friendship with Pusey, who exercised a notable influence on his mind. In 1864 he was engaged as examining chaplain by W. K. Hamilton, bishop of Salisbury, and like Hamilton he defended the doctrine of the real presence in the Eucharist. The famous lectures as well, known as the Bampton lectures, delivered in 1866, on the divinity of Jesus Christ, were also a great success. Finally, having been made canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, he preached there brilliantly until his death. He advocated the union of the Churches and was present at the Bonn conference of 1875.
Principal works: besides several volumes of sermons on the Old Testament and on the life of Jesus Christ: The Divinity of Lord Jesus Christ, being the Bampton Lectures for 1866 (14th ed., London 1890); Explanatory analysis of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (4th ed., London-Oxford 1893); Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey (4 vols., ibid. 1893-97).