Liddon was a high-church Anglican divine, a professor and administrator at Oxford and a member of the Tractarian group. In 1866 he gave an outstanding lecture, The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which was published and became his best-known work. But his chief fame rests on his preaching as a canon of St Paul’s Cathedral from 1870 to 1890, in which he marshalled his great knowledge of Scripture and theology, his strong sense of logic and order, and his superb command of the English language.