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Henry Liddell

For other people named Henry Liddell, see Henry Liddell (disambiguation).

Henry Liddell, in an 1858 portrait by George Richmond

Henry George Liddell (/ˈlɪdəl/;[a] 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898) was dean (1855–1891) of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870–1874), headmaster (1846–1855) of Westminster School[3] (where a house is now named after him), author of A History of Rome (1855), and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work A Greek–English Lexicon,[4] known as "Liddell and Scott", which is still widely used by students of Greek. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for Henry Liddell's daughter Alice.

  1. ^ Balliol Rhymes, p. 29.
  2. ^ Naiditch, P. G. (1993). "On Pronouncing the Names of Certain British Classical Scholars". The Classical Journal. 89 (1): 57. JSTOR 3297619.
  3. ^ Henry George Liddell, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies Archived 8 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Henry Liddell at the Encyclopædia Britannica


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