Liddell, Henry George 1811-98
English classical scholar

Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, he was ordained in 1838 and appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. Then headmaster of Westminster School (1846-55), he returned to Christ Church as dean, was Vice-Chancellor of the university (1870-74), and resigned the deanship in 1891. He is renowned for the Greek-English Lexicon (1843), based on the dictionary of German scholar Franz Passow (1786-1883), with Robert Scott (1811-87), Master of Balliol College (1854-70). Liddell also wrote a History of Rome (1855). His daughter, Alice, was the little girl for whom Lewis Carroll, his colleague at Christ Church, wrote Alice in Wonderland.