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HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL (1811-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 588 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:GEORGE See also:LIDDELL (1811-1898)  , See also:English See also:scholar and divine, eldest son of the Rev . See also:Henry See also:George See also:Liddell, younger See also:brother of the first See also:Baron Ravensworth, was See also:born at Binchester, near See also:Bishop See also:Auckland, on the 6th of See also:February 1811 . He was educated at See also:Charterhouse and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford . Gaining a See also:double first in 1833, Liddell became a See also:college See also:tutor, and was ordained in 1838 . In the same See also:year See also:Dean' See also:Gaisford appointed him See also:Greek reader in Christ Church, and in 1846 he was appointed 1 The Greek equivalents of 'icier are ,a Moii7 os, baQSo¢bpor, batiMovoµos (See also:rod-See also:bearer) ; the Latin word is variously derived from: (a) ligare, to bind or See also:arrest a criminal; (b) licere, to summon, as convoking assemblies or haling offenders before the See also:magistrate; (c) licium, the See also:girdle with which (according to some) their toga was held up; (d) See also:Plutarch (Quaestiones Romanae, 67), assuming an Wei- See also:form airwp, suggests an See also:identification with aeLrovpybs, one who performs a public See also:office.to the headmastership of See also:Westminster School . Meanwhile his See also:life See also:work, the See also:great See also:Lexicon (based on the See also:German work of F . See also:Passow), which he and See also:Robert See also:Scott began as See also:early as 1834, had made See also:good progress, and the first edition appeared in 1843 . It immediately became the See also:standard Greek-English See also:dictionary and still maintains this See also:rank, although, notwithstanding the great additions made of See also:late to our Greek vocabulary from See also:inscriptions, papyriand other See also:sources, scarcely any enlargement has been made since about 1880 . The 8th edition was published in 1897 . As headmaster of Westminster Liddell enjoyed a See also:period of great success, followed by trouble due to the outbreak of See also:fever and See also:cholera in the school . In 1855 he accepted the deanery of Christ Church, then vacant by the See also:death of Gaisford . In the same year he brought out a See also:History of See also:Ancient See also:Rome (much used in an abridged form as the Student's History of Rome) and took a very active See also:part in the first Oxford University See also:Commission .

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fine presence and aristocratic mien were for many years associated with all that was characteristic of Oxford life . Coming just at the transition period when the " old Christ Church," which See also:Pusey strove so hard to preserve, was inevitably becoming broader and more liberal, it was chiefly due to Liddell that necessary changes were effected with the minimum of See also:friction . In 1859 Liddell welcomed the then See also:prince of See also:Wales when he matriculated at Christ Church, being the first holder of that See also:title who had matriculated since Henry V . In See also:conjunction with See also:Sir Henry See also:Acland, Liddell did much to en-courage the, study of See also:art at Oxford, and his See also:taste and See also:judgment gained him the admiration and friendship of See also:Ruskin . In 1891, owing to advancing years, he resigned the deanery . The last years of his life were spent at See also:Ascot, where he died on the 18th of See also:January 1898 . Dean Liddell married in See also:July 1846 See also:Miss Lorina See also:Reeve (d . 191o), by whom he had a numerous See also:family . See memoir by H . L . See also:Thompson, Henry George Liddell (1899) .

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