Henry Liddon

[2] Liddon was praised for grasp of his subject, clarity and lucidity, use of illustration, vividness of imagination, elegance of diction, and sympathy with the intellectual position of those whom he addressed.

With Dean Church he restored the influence of the Tractarian school, and he succeeded in popularising the opinions which, in the hands of Edward Bouverie Pusey and John Keble, had appealed to thinkers and scholars.

[2] In 1882 he resigned his professorship and travelled in Palestine and Egypt; and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Döllinger at Munich.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Liddon's influence during his life was due to his personal fascination and his pulpit oratory rather than to his intellect.

[2] As a theologian his outlook was old-fashioned; to the last he maintained the narrowly orthodox standpoint of Pusey and Keble, in opposition to modernist thought and scholarship.

Liddon is buried in the Chapel of the Order of the British Empire in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral,[4] close to the grave of Henry Hart Milman.