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Henry Liddell

1811 - 1898

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Henry George Liddell (; 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 is 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 is still widely used by students of Greek. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for Henry Liddell's daughter Alice. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Liddell is the 174th most popular linguist (down from 161st in 2019), the 4,313th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,957th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Henry Liddell ranks 174 out of 214. Before him are John Lyons, Andrey Zaliznyak, Göran Malmqvist, Zellig Harris, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Henry Sweet. After him are Gideon Toury, Robert Blust, Sergei Starostin, Oswald Szemerényi, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Henry Liddell ranks 67. Before him are John Neumann, Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Edwin Strickland, and Victor Duruy. After him are Karl Ludwig Littrow, John William Casilear, Alfred Domett, Charles Sumner, Juan Bautista Ceballos, and Francisco Javier Zaldúa. Among people deceased in 1898, Henry Liddell ranks 74. Before him are Adolfo Farsari, Wilford Woodruff, Ángel Ganivet, Karl Knies, Luiza Pesjak, and Emil Hartmann. After him are Yelena Polenova, John Hopkinson, Thomas F. Bayard, Yakov Polonsky, George Grey, and Don Carlos Buell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 4,314 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Wales (2015), Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Anne V. Coates (1925), Mark Williams (1975), and Simon Davies (1979). After him are Margaret Leighton (1922), Gerry Anderson (1929), Liam Howlett (1971), Amlaíb Cuarán (1000), Nick Park (1958), and Donald Rayfield (1942).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 13. Before him are John Chadwick (1920), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Lyons (1932), and Henry Sweet (1845). After him are Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), John Eliot (1604), John Rupert Firth (1890), and Ian Hancock (1942).

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