biography
| name: |
Liddell, Henry George
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pronunciation:
[lidl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1811–98)
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| biography:
| Scholar and lexicographer, born in Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, NE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was ordained in 1838, and became a tutor at Oxford (1836–45) and headmaster of Westminster School (1846–55). He returned to Christ Church as dean, was vice-chancellor of the university (1870–4), and resigned the deanship in 1891. His major work was co-editing the Greek–English Lexicon (1843), and he also wrote a History of Rome (1855). His daughter, Alice, later Mrs Reginald Hargreaves, was the little girl for whom Charles Dodgson, his colleague at Christ Church, wrote Alice in Wonderland. |
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