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2 unusual facts about Henry Liddell


Henry Liddell

In July 1846, Liddell married Miss Lorina Reeve (d. 1910), with whom he had several children, including Alice Liddell of Lewis Carroll fame.

Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), for whom the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally told.



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Baron Ravensworth

Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor, was the eponymous subject of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Henry Mabb

Sometime in the late 19th century, Henry Liddell Mabb Sr. relocated the family to Antwerp, Belgium.

Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Their daughter Maria Susannah Simpson married Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth (youngest son of Sir Henry Liddell 5th Bart, younger brother of Revd Henry George Liddell d. 1872)