Subsequent Life
In 1860 Halliday was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He served as a Member of the Council of India from 1868 to 1886.
Halliday, who had a lifelong interest in music, was a player of the contrabass and from this acquired the nickname of "Big Fiddle". He married Eliza Barbara Macgregor, the daughter of an officer in the army of the East India Company, on 25 December 1834. She predeceased him, in 1886, having borne several children, one of whom — George Thomas Halliday — was later a Lieutenant-General in the Bengal Cavalry.
He died, aged 95, on 22 October 1901 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
His younger brother was General John Gustavus Halliday (1822–1917), and his grandson, Hastings Hadley D'Oyly (whom Clare Anderson thinks was probably named after Warren Hastings) was a member of the family of D'Oyly baronets.
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