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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Liddell has received more than 370,260 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Liddell is the 161st most popular linguist (up from 162nd in 2019), the 3,957th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,964th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Linguist.

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  • 46.70

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Henry Liddell ranks 161 out of 214. Before him are Arsène Darmesteter, Ziad Fazah, Arnold Chikobava, Hermann Hirt, Charles F. Hockett, and Takekazu Asaka. After him are Kenneth Lee Pike, János Sajnovics, Waldemar Rosenberger, Hermann Möller, Sergei Starostin, and George Perkins Marsh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Henry Liddell ranks 64. Before him are John Neumann, Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, Victor Duruy, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, and James Hall. After him are Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, Karl Ludwig Littrow, Juan Bautista Ceballos, Diomidis Kyriakos, William Henry Harvey, and Francisco Javier Zaldúa. Among people deceased in 1898, Henry Liddell ranks 69. Before him are Maria Katharina Kasper, Félix María Zuloaga, Ángel Ganivet, John Hopkinson, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, and James Hall. After him are Wilford Woodruff, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Don Carlos Buell, Yakov Polonsky, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, and Johan Lange.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 3,957 out of 8,785. Before him are Billy Hughes (1862), Elton Dean (1945), Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Matthew Goode (1978), Liam Howlett (1971), and Edward Carpenter (1844). After him are Michael Giles (1942), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), John André (1750), Meave Leakey (1942), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), and Isaac Roberts (1829).

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Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 10. Before him are Michael Halliday (1925), Daniel Jones (1881), John Florio (1553), James Legge (1815), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), and John Lyons (1932). After him are Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), John Rupert Firth (1890), John Eliot (1604), Oswald Szemerényi (1913), Henry Sweet (1845), and Alexander Melville Bell (1819).

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