LYDALL, RICHARD, son of John Lydall, Uxmore, Oxfordshire, and his second wife Joan, dau. of Richard Stevens, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1633; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1635, adm. pens. 14 May 1635, scholar 1636, matr. Easter 1635; migrated to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1637/8, aged 17; BA 1641; MA 1647 (incorp. Cambridge 1650); MB 1656; MD 1657; Fellow of Merton Coll. Oxford 1641; said to have served in royalist army during Civil War; submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 1648, but put out of commons for a week and publicly admonished by the Warden of Merton for drinking the King’s health in hall “with a Tertiavit” and “standing bare” on Gaudy day 1648 (Burrows, 262 and note); Warden of Merton from 27 Nov 1693; according to Wood, Lydall was “a packhorse in the practical and old Galenical way of physick, knows nothing else, buys no books, nor understands what learning is, or the world, how the affairs thereof passeth” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., i, cxvi); m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Deane, Chalgrove, Bucks.; m. 2nd, Mary, dau. of Edward Perrot, Northleigh, Oxfordshire; m. 3rd, 30 Jul 1667 Sarah, dau. of Richard Zouch LLD, Regius Professor of Civil Law, Oxford; d. 5 Mar 1703/4.