The Honourable Sir Adolphus Frederick Octavius Liddell 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.
- Occupation
- barrister
- Position held
- Permanent Secretary to the Home Office
- Born
- January 15, 1818
- Died
