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Born in Belize, British Honduras, 1886; son of Charles Reginald Hoffmeister; took the name Halliday, 1905; educated at Winchester; New College Oxford; 1st class Literae Humaniores, 1908; Craven Fellow, 1909; studied at Berlin University and British School, Athens; Lecturer on Greek History and Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 1911-1914; Rathbone Professor of Ancient History, University of Liverpool, 1914-1928; Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and Intelligence Officer in Greece, 1916-1918; Chevalier of the Order of the Redeemer (Greek), despatches, 1918; Principal of King's College London, 1928-1952; Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of London, 1932-1933; Chairman of Collegiate Council, 1932-1934, 1944-1946; Member of the Court of the University of London, 1933-1951; Chairman of the National Froebel Union, 1936-1943; knighted 1946; died 1966. Publications include: Greek Divination (1913); with R M Dawkins, Modern Greek in Asia Minor (1916); Lectures on the History of Roman Religion (1922); The Growth of the City State (1923); Folklore Studies, Ancient and Modern (1924); The Pagan Background of Early Christianity (1925); Greek and Roman Folklore (1927); Introduction to Penzer-Tawney, The Ocean of Story, volume viii (1927); The Greek Questions of Plutarch (1928); Indo-European Folk-Tales and Greek Legend (1933); Sir Thomas Cockaine, a Short Treatise of Hunting (1932); with T W Allen and E E Sikes, The Homeric Hymns (1936).