Francis Frederick Lidderdale was the third son of John of St. Petersburg. He married Hester, daughter of James and Ann Ponsford. She was born 5 Oct, 1844, died 11 Feb 1926. Both were buried at Hemel Hempstead.

Early in his career he was a merchant in Bombay, where he mostly traded in cotton. This was partly during the American Civil War. When the war ended cotton was less profitable and he returned to England with his wife and two elder children. In England he eventually became a company director, and perhaps his most important appointment was the Chairmanship of the Peruvian Corporation, a silver mining firm in Peru.

The children of the marriage were Francis John, James Stewart, Arthur Hector and Eustace Henry.

Reprinted from:
• Lidderdale, Robert Halliday, An Account of the Lowland Scots Family of Lidderdale, 1950.
• Lidderdale, Halliday Adair, The Descendants of John Lidderdale 1783-1845, 1988, unpublished manuscript.