Sir Frederick Francis Liddell KCB KC (7 June 1865 – 19 March 1950) was a British lawyer and civil servant.
[1] He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1888 with first-class honours in Literae humaniores.
[1] In 1902, he was appointed Second Parliamentary Counsel, and after the 1906 general election played a major part in helping prepare the large amount of new legislation the Liberal government aimed to pass.
Among his major work was assisting the drafting of plans to reform the Territorial Force and create the Royal Air Force, as well as the reorganisation of substantial parts of the criminal law and the law of property, and an attempt to reform income tax.
One of his sons, an officer in the Royal Navy, died at sea shortly after the end of the Second World War.