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 cemetery on 14 April. His printed works were: In Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ the following pieces were printed: in vol. xliii. ‘Romeo and Juliet travestie,’ and in vol. lxxxv. ‘Checkmate,’ a farce. The farces by William Brough and A. Halliday were: In vol. l. the ‘Census,’ in vol. li. the ‘Pretty Horsebreaker,’ in vol. lv. ‘A Shilling Day at the Great Exhibition’ and the ‘Colleen Bawn settled at last,’ in vol. lvii. ‘A Valentine,’ in vol. lx. ‘My Heart's in the Highlands,’ in vol. lxii. the ‘Area Belle,’ in vol. lxiii. the ‘Actor's Retreat,’ in vol. lxiv. ‘Doing Banting,’ in vol. lxv. ‘Going to the Dogs,’ in vol. lxvi. ‘Upstairs and Downstairs,’ in vol. lxvii. ‘Mudborough Election.’ ‘Kenilworth,’ a comic extravaganza, by A. Halliday and F. Lawrence, and ‘Checkmate,’ a comedy, were also printed. In a publication called ‘Mixed Sweets,’ 1867, Halliday wrote ‘About Pantomimes,’ pp. 43–54.
 * 1) ‘The Adventures of Mr. Wilderspin in his Journey through Life,’ 1860.
 * 2) ‘Everyday Papers,’ 1864, 2 vols.
 * 3) ‘Sunnyside Papers,’ 1866.
 * 4) ‘Town and Country Sketches,’ 1866.
 * 5) ‘The Great City,’ a novel, 1867.
 * 6) ‘The Savage Club Papers,’ 1867 and 1868, edited by A. Halliday, 2 vols.
 * 7) Shakespeare's tragedy of ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ arranged by A. Halliday, 1873.



HALLIDAY, MICHAEL FREDERICK (1822–1869), amateur artist, son of a captain in the navy, was from 1839 until his death clerk in the parliament office, House of Lords. He cultivated a taste for painting in later years with much energy and fair success. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 a view of ‘Moel Shabod from the Capel Curig Road.’ In 1856 he exhibited ‘The Measure for the Wedding Ring,’ and two scenes from the Crimean war; the former attracted much notice and was engraved. He exhibited in 1857 ‘The Sale of a Heart,’ in 1858 ‘The Blind Basket-maker with his First Child,’ in 1864 ‘A Bird in the Hand,’ and in 1866 ‘Roma vivente e Roma morta.’ He contributed an etching of ‘The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies’ to the edition of Hood's ‘Poems’ published by the Junior Etching Club in 1858. Halliday was one of the earliest members of the pre-Raphaelite school of painting. He was also an enthusiastic volunteer, a first-rate rifle-shot, and one of the first English eight who competed for the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon. He died after a short illness at Thurloe Place, South Kensington, on 1 June, 1869, and was buried at Brompton cemetery.



HALLIFAX, SAMUEL (1733–1790), bishop successively of Gloucester and St. Asaph, born at Mansfield on 8 Jan. 1733, was eldest son of Robert Hallifax, apothecary, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, by Hannah, daughter of Samuel Jebb of the same town, who are commemorated by a monument in Chesterfield Church. Robert Hallifax, M.D. (1735-1810), who was physician to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV), was a younger brother (, Coll. of Phys. ii. 336). Sir (1729-1787) [q. v.] and (1736-1786) [q. v.] were his first cousins. His grandfather, Robert Waterhouse of Halifax, was the first to drop the patronymic of Waterhouse, and to call himself Hallifax, from the town with which his family had been long connected. After attending the grammar school of Mansfield,. Hallifax was admitted into Jesus College, Cambridge, as an ordinary sizar 21 Oct. 1749, and was elected to a close scholarship on the foundation of Archbishop Sterne on 24 Oct. In January 1754 he graduated B.A., when he was third wrangler in mathematics, and won the chancellor's gold medal for classics, and in 1755 and 1756 he carried off one of the members' prizes. He was elected foundation scholar on 16 Feb. 1754, and admitted to a fellowship on 22 June 1756. Next year he proceeded M.A., and before resigning his fellowship at Jesus College, early in 1760, held the college offices of praelector, dean, tutor, steward, and rental bursar. On migrating to Trinity Hall, Hallifax was elected to a fellowship (3 April 1760), and speedily became eminent as its tutor. Here he applied himself to the study of law, and took the degree of LL.D. in 1764. He was presented to the rectory of Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, 30 Nov. 1765, and held it until 1777, but continued to reside at Cambridge, and retained his fellowship until 1 Nov. 1775. When the chair of Arabic became vacant in January 1768, Hallifax, then deputy of Dr. Ridlington, professor of civil law, defeated his cousin, John Jebb, who had studied Arabic for some time, in the contest for the Arabic chair. He held as sinecures for two years both the professorship of Arabic on the foundation of Sir Thomas Adams