'High Church' — The Rev. Canon H. P. Liddon

Spy (Leslie Ward) renders the Oxford divine Henry Parry Liddon in sharp profile: a lean, slightly stooped figure in a long dark frock coat, top hat, and black shoes, holding a furled umbrella behind his back while gripping a walking stick — clerical respectability made architectural. The caption reads 'High Church,' a pointed label for one of the era's foremost Tractarian preachers, Pusey's protégé and a fierce opponent of theological liberalism. Ward's caricature exaggerates Liddon's sharp nose and receding chin into something almost beak-like, a standard Spy economy of line that reads as wry rather than savage. The politics are ecclesiastical: Liddon stood firmly against Essays and Reviews and Colenso, defending credal orthodoxy at a moment when Darwinism and Higher Criticism were fracturing the Victorian Church of England.