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giving Mr. Liddell a right to the new process, and he carried it on until 

 he retired from business. Next to the sturdy common sense, the practical 

 sagacity, and energy of purpose which formed the prominent features of 

 Mr. Liddell's mind, he was remarkable above most men for methodical 

 habits and punctuality. These qualities, added to a good knowledge of 

 machinery, rendered him a first-rate man of business ; and the promptitude, 

 energy, " push," and punctuality, which he exercised in his early career, 

 characterized him through life. His success in business was equal to his 

 wishes, and he was able to retire in 1844, with a respectable competency, 

 and a large heart and liberal mind to enjoy the well-earned fruits of his 

 toils, and employ a due share of his substance in doing good to others. 

 Mr. M'Laren died in 1830, and Mr. Liddell continued sole partner in the 

 business till 1844, when he surrendered the iron manufactory to his 

 nephew, Mr. Robert M'Laren, Globe Foundry. Mr. Liddell was ex- 

 tensively employed, on the introduction of gas-light, as a fitter of gas- 

 pipes and machinery. In addition to various towns in Scotland, he in- 

 troduced gas into Armagh, Dungannon, Dundalk, and Kilkenny in 

 Ireland; and sent apparatus for the same purpose to Nova Scotia and 

 Canada. 



Both before and after his retirement from business, Mr. Liddell took 

 an active share in pubUc affairs, for which his habits admirably quali- 

 fied him. He served for several years in the Magistracy with great 

 acceptance to the public. Amidst his busiest years, he never lost the 

 thoughtful habits of his youth. He was a well read man in general 

 literature ; and was quite an authority on the subject of patented inven- 

 tions, possessing in his valuable library one of the few complete copies 

 of the " Repertory of Inventions," which he appeared to have thoroughly 

 studied. He took a great interest in the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, enjoyed the confidence of its leading men, and 

 was a principal means of bringing that learned body to Glasgow in 1841, 

 as well as of preparing, by a year of extraordinary personal labour in 

 correspondence and otherwise, for its reception. He was one of the 

 deputation who went from this city to the Liverpool meeting of 1854 to 

 invite the Association to visit GlasgoAV next year, and had again pro- 

 mised his invaluable services in the way of rendering that visit interest- 

 ing, useful, and creditable to our town. Some years ago, Mr. Liddell 

 devoted much of his attention to reviving the public utility of Stirling's 

 Library. His latest service of a literary kind was to write a biographical 

 eketch of the celebrated David Dale, for the supplementary volume of 

 Messrs. Blackie's "Lives of Eminent Scotsmen." Mr. LiddeU was a 

 man of a kindred mind with the philanthropic Dale, and undertook and 

 completed the task con amore. 



Mr. Liddell was one of the founders of the Night Asylum for the 



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