Robert Liddell
(John) Robert Liddell (13 October 1908 – 23 July 1992) was an English literary critic, biographer, novelist, travel writer and poet.Liddell was born at Tunbridge Wells, England, the elder son of Major John Stewart Liddell, CMG, DSO, who served with the Royal Engineers and later worked for the Egyptian Government at Cairo, and his first wife, Anna Gertrude, daughter of E. Morgan, of Hongershall Park, Tunbridge Wells.He was a great-grandson of Sir John Liddell, KCB, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy, and his paternal grandmother was of the gentry family of Gibson of Shalford and Sullington.[3] Poor relations developed between the two boys and their stepmother, who was the basis for the central character in Liddell's novel Stepsons.[4] Liddell was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex, at Haileybury School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.