LIDDEL, LAURENCE [SSNE 6610]

Surname

LIDDEL, LYDELL, LIDDLE

First name

LAURENCE

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Laurence Liddel was employed as a spy by Sigismund III for gathering intelligence in Russia.

A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.25; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.255.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, RUSSIA

Arrived 1593-01-01

Departed 1632-12-31

Capacity SPY, purpose ESPIONAGE