Adolphus Liddell

{{short description|British civil servant and barrister (1818–1885)}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Sir Adolphus Liddell

| honorific_suffix = KCB QC

| image = Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell, Vanity Fair, 1882-09-30.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1818|1|15}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1885|6|27|1818|1|15}}

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| father = Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth

| mother =

| education = Eton College

| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford

| occupation = {{hlist|Civil servant|barrister}}

| spouse =

| relatives = Sir Alan Lascelles (grandson)

}}

The Honourable Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell {{Postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|QC|sep=,}} (15 January 1818 – 27 June 1885) was a British civil servant who was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1867 until his death in 1885. The son of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth, Liddell was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in Literae humaniores in 1838, before being elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1844, took silk in 1861, and was created a KCB in 1880.{{Cite journal |date=August 1885 |title=Legal Obituary of the Quarter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZADAAAAQAAJ&dq=Sir+Adolphus+Liddell&pg=RA1-PA449 |journal=The Law Magazine and Review |issue=CCLVII |pages=449–450}}

He was the father of the society figure and lawyer Adolphus George Charles Liddell{{Cite ODNB|id=49525 |title=Liddell, Adolphus George Charles}} and the maternal grandfather of Sir Alan Lascelles.

He was buried in Sheen Cemetery.{{Cite news |date=4 July 1885 |title=North Country News |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BA3200192732/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=b3c86d0e |work=Northern Echo |pages= |via=British Library Newspapers}}{{Cite web |title=People of historical note buried in the borough A to L |url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/people_of_historical_note_buried_in_the_borough_a_to_l |website=London Borough of Richmond upon Thames}}