Anecdotes
Liddell was an Oxford 'character' in later years. He figures in contemporary undergraduate doggerel (http://fundiesvatheists.lefora.com/2011/02/21/oxford-in-wonderland/) :
I am the Dean, this Mrs Liddell
She plays first, I, second fiddle.
She is the Broad,
I am the High -
We are the University.
The Victorian journalist, George W. E. Russell (1853–1919), conveys something of Liddell's image (Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography, 1914, 84) :
'The Vice-Chancellor who matriculated me was the majestic Liddell, who, with his six feet of stately height draped in scarlet, his "argent aureole" of white hair, and his three silver maces borne before him, always helped me to understand what Sydney Smith meant when he said, of some nonsensical proposition, that no power on earth, save and except the Dean of Christ Church, should induce him to believe it.'
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