Transcript

of

William Halliday Halliday, M.A. (Oxon), D.L, J.P. [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. XXX, (1898), pp. 43-44.

by

Rev. W. Harpley

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1898 Honiton meeting. A concise, illustrated “story of the Halliday family” of Glenthorn House in Lynton appears in an article on the History of the Barnstaple and Minehead Railway.The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sou ght-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

William Halliday Halliday, M.A. Oxon., D.L., and J.P., was the only son of Sir William R Cosway, of Bilsington, Kent, by his marriage with Elizabeth Harvie, daughter of Simon Halliday, of Whinnyrigg, Dumfriesshire. He was born in 1828, and married in 1860 Maria, fourth daughter of Sir P. H. Farquhar, Bart. In 1872 he succeeded the Rev. Walter Halliday, of Glenthorn, Lynton, and assumed the name of Halliday. In 1882 he was Sheriff of Devon, and was Chairman of Quarter Sessions some 25 years. In the early part of this year he was making a tour, joined his eldest daughter at Singapore, whence the two visited Japan and crossed to America. Arrived at Toronto on his homeward way, Mr. Halliday was taken ill, and died there, leaving three daughters.

At the recent sessions Lord Clinton bore testimony to Mr. Halliday being a very capable and useful justice, as well as a very competent Chairman of Quarter Sessions; and it was resolved that an entry should be made in the minutes expressive of the “deep regret felt by the court at Mr. Halliday's death, and of the great loss the county had thereby sustained."

Mr. Halliday joined the Association as a life member in 1873, and was a vice-president in 1875.