Liddell, HENRY GEORGE

Liddell, HENRY GEORGE, joint author of Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon, was born in 1811, and educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a double first in 1833. He was made tutor of his college, and in 1845 professor of Moral Philosophy in his university. After acting for nine years (1846-55) as head-master of Westminster School, he returned to Christ Church as dean. From 1870 to 1874 he was vice-chancellor of the university. The Lexicon (1843; 7th and definitive ed. 1883) was based on the German one of Passow. It soon became indispensable to students of Greek, and a smaller edition was issued for the use of school-boys, an intermediate one in 1890. Dr Liddell's fellow-worker was Robert Scott, D.D. (1811-87), master of Balliol (1854-70), and Dean of Rochester. Dr Liddell wrote a useful History of Rome (1855; abridged as The Student's Rome). He resigned the deanship in 1891, and died 18th January 1898. See Life by Thompson (1899).