Notes
He enrolled in Worcester College, Oxford in 1892 and the college archive adds: 'Cecil Lydall matriculated in 1892 as a Classical Exhibitioner and achieved third class honours in Classics in 1896. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he was already serving as a Chaplain in the Royal Navy and at the time of his death was Chaplain on Sir David Beatty’s flagship, HMS Lion. The Reverend Cecil Lydall was killed in action in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, five days before he was to have been married.'