Thomas Liddell (other)
Thomas Liddell may refer to: * Thomas Liddell (principal) (1800–1880), first principal of Queen's University, Ontario, then Queen's College * Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (1775–1855), British peer and Tory politician * Sir Thomas Liddell, 1st Baronet Captain Sir Thomas Liddell, 1st Baronet (1578 – 1652) was an English Royalist politician of the Liddell family which monopolized the local government of the North of England during the 16th and 17th centuries. Family Liddell was born in 1578. ...

Thomas Liddell (principal)
Thomas Liddell (October 18, 1800 – June 11, 1880) was the first Principal of Queen's University, then Queen's College. Life Liddell was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1800, the son of John Liddell and his wife Janet Martin. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. He moved from Montrose Chapel of Ease to Lady Glenorchy's Church in Edinburgh in December 1831. He worked alongside the elderly Rev Thomas Snell Jones.''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; by Hew Scott His senior, James Bonar WS, was at this time organising the physical relocation of the church due to the known coming of Waverley Railway Station. The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Divinity in 1841. In 1841, he left Edinburgh for Canada where he was appointed the first Principal of Queen's College, Kingston. Here he worked with only one other member of staff, Peter Colin Campbell. Due to issues arising from the Disruption of 1843 in Scotland, f ...
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Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth
Thomas Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (8 February 1775 – 7 March 1855), known as Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Baronet, from 1791 to 1821, was a British peer and Tory politician. Early life Liddell was the son of Sir Henry Liddell, 5th Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Steele, a daughter of Thomas Steele of Hampsnett. His younger brother Henry Liddell, Rector of Easington (1787–1872), was the father of a younger Henry Liddell, co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', and father of the Alice who inspired ''Alice in Wonderland''. Career He succeeded his father in the baronetcy and to the family estates at Ravensworth Castle and Eslington Park and to extensive coal mining interests in 1791. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1804 and served as Tory Member of Parliament for County Durham between 1806 and 1807. On 17 July 1821 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ravensworth, of Ravensworth Castle in the County Palatine o ...
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