Henry Liddell Quotes

British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)

Henry George Liddell (6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and dean (1855–91) of Christ Church, Oxford. His daughter Alice inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Birth Name: Henry George Liddell

Alternative Names: H. G. Liddell • Dean Liddell • Liddell HG

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She was extremely fond of snuff,and blew her nose with a trumpet-like sound on a vast indian silk handkerchief, which she carefully arranged before use with a sort of cushion.

A good, square, stone house, placed on an eminence, facing the Bishop's Palace at Auckland.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.