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Henry Liddell

The Very Rev. Henry George Liddell (February 6, 1811 - January 18, 1898) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and co-author (with Robert Scott[?]) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon[?], which is still in use to this day.

He was the father of Alice Liddell, the inspiration behind the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

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