Horace Liddell

**Horace Liddell** (20 December, 1911 - 27 April, 1989) was an English pure-blood wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September, 1923 to June 1930. He was a member of the Liddell family.

He married Tabitha Goshawk in 1937 and the couple had three children together. They were Mary, Andrew, and Anne. Horace passed away at the age of 77 in Budleigh Babberton, Devon, England. He was a grandfather of four.

## Biography

### Early life

Horace Liddell was born on 20 December, 1911, in Budleigh Babberton, Devon, England. He was a member of the pure-blood Liddell family. Budleigh Babberton, the town in which Horace was born, is a small town on the coast in East Devon, England. It lies at the mouth of the River Otter, where the estuary forms an area of reed bed and grazing marsh.

#### Hogwarts years

He received his Hogwarts letter in the summer of 1923. That same summer, he visited Diagon Alley, located in London, and purchased a wand made of mahogany and unicorn hair from Ollivander's Wand Shop. On 1 September, 1923, he boarded the train for Hogwarts and was sorted into Ravenclaw House that same night.

In his fourth year of school, Horace tried out for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, and made the cut. He played the position of Chaser, and that year they unfortunately lost the Quidditch Cup. He was also a member of the Potions Club. The Potions Club was a recreational club at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for students interested in Potions. Students would meet weekly and the club also functioned as a tutoring system for younger students.

He left Hogwarts after completing his seventh year in June 1930. He managed to secure employment as a brewer at an Apothecary in Diagon Alley, Slug & Jiggers.

#### Marriage

Horace Liddell married Tabitha Goshawk on 22 May, 1937, in Budleigh Babberton, Devon, England. She was the third oldest daughter of Phineas Goshawk and Rowina Goshawk (née Shepley). Tabitha and Horace had a daughter together, Mary Liddell, on 14 April, 1938, followed by a son on 28 June, 1940, Andrew Liddell. On 10 May, 1943, Tabitha Liddell (née Goshawk), gave birth to a daughter, Anne Liddell.

### Later life

Anne Liddell, Horace's daughter, married Ivan Fortescue on 21 July, 1959. He became a grandfather when Anne gave birth to a baby girl, Alice Fortescue, on 14 August, 1960.

His only son, Andrew Liddell, married a muggle in 1961, and their son, Peter, was born on 17 March, 1962, followed by another boy, Lewis, in 1964. Finally, Poppy Liddell was born in 1965.

#### Death

Horace Liddell passed away at the age of 77 in Budleigh Babberton, Devon, England. He was a grandfather of four and was survived by his wife, Tabitha, who followed him into death four years later, at 82.

## Etymology

His surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from any of the various places in Cumberland and Roxburghshire called Liddel. The placename in Cumberland was recorded as "Lidel" in documents published in "Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society", circa 1165. These placenames are composed of the Olde English pre 7th Century river name "Hlyde", Loud, and the Olde English "-dael", valley.