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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 342,568 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Liddell is the 162nd most popular linguist (down from 138th in 2019), the 3,972nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,430th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Henry Liddell ranks 162 out of 161Before him are John Eliot, Friedrich Kluge, Andrey Zaliznyak, Renato Corsetti, Arsène Darmesteter, and Lev Shcherba. After him are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Viktor Vinogradov, John Rupert Firth, Sergei Starostin, Ziad Fazah, and Vladislav Illich-Svitych.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Henry Liddell ranks 64Before him are James Hall, Katarina Ivanović, Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona, William Henry Harvey, Hugh Edwin Strickland, and Victor Duruy. After him are Charles Sumner, Diomidis Kyriakos, Juan Bautista Ceballos, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, George Caleb Bingham, and George Gilbert Scott. Among people deceased in 1898, Henry Liddell ranks 69Before him are Joaquín Crespo, John Hopkinson, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Félix María Zuloaga, James Hall, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Yakov Polonsky, Don Carlos Buell, Osbert Salvin, Luiza Pesjak, William Rosecrans, and Wilford Woodruff.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 3,972 out of 7,765Before him are Ed Skrein (1983), Walter Winterbottom (1913), Liz Smith (1921), Sandy Powell (1960), Beth Gibbons (1965), and William Robert Brooks (1844). After him are Mischa Barton (1986), Jim Kerr (1959), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Susanna Clarke (1959), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), and Eric Brook (1907).

Among LINGUISTS In United Kingdom

Among linguists born in United Kingdom, Henry Liddell ranks 12Before him are John Florio (1553), Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), James Legge (1815), John Lyons (1932), and John Eliot (1604). After him are John Rupert Firth (1890), Alexander Melville Bell (1819), Henry Sweet (1845), and Henry Watson Fowler (1858).