Henry Liddell

Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar

Henry George Liddell (/'l?d?l/; 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 (where a house was 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, known as "Liddell and Scott", which was still widely used by students of Greek.

Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for Henry Liddell's daughter Alice.