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Caricature of Rev. Henry Liddell (1875).

Henry George Liddell (February 6, 1811 – January 18, 1898) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Dean (1855-91) of Christ Church, Oxford , headmaster (1846–55) of Westminster School^[1], author of A History of Rome (1857), and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon^[2], which is still used by students of Greek. His daughter Alice was the Alice for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland.

Liddell received his education at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He gained a double first degree in 1833, then became a college tutor, and was ordained in 1838.

While he was Dean of Christ Church, he arranged for the building of a new choir school and classrooms for the staff and pupils of Christ Church Cathedral School on its present site. Before then the school was housed within Christ Church College itself.

His father was Henry Liddell, Rector of Easington^{[disambiguation needed]} (died 1872), the younger son of Sir Henry Liddell, 5th Baronet (1749–1791) and the former Elizabeth Steele. His father's elder brother, Sir Thomas Liddell, 6th Baronet (1775–1855), was raised to the Peerage as Baron Ravensworth in 1821.

His mother was the former Charlotte Lyon (died 1871), a daughter of Thomas Lyon (died 1796) (who was the youngest son of the 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) and the former Mary Wren (died 1811).

On July 2, 1846, Henry married Lorina Reeve (d. June 25, 1910). They were parents to ten children:

• Edward Henry Liddell (6 September 1847 – June 14, 1911).
• Lorina Charlotte Liddell (11 May 1849 – October 29, 1930).
• James Arthur Charles Liddell (28 December 1850 – 27 November 1853)
• Alice Pleasance Liddell (May 4, 1852 – November 16, 1934), for whom the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally told.
• Edith Mary Liddell (born c. 1854 – 1876).
• Rhoda Caroline Anne Liddell (1859 – d. May 19, 1949).
• Albert Edward Arthur Liddell (1863 – 28 May 1863)
• Violet Constance Liddell (10 March 1864 – d. December 9, 1927).
• Sir Frederick Francis Liddell (June 7, 1865 – March 19, 1950).
• Lionel Charles Liddell (May 22, 1868 – March 21, 1942).

• Alice Liddell
• Lewis Carroll

• Two portraits of him
• A genealogical profile of him

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.