Alice Liddell

Alice Pleasance Liddell
Liddell, aged 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860
Born	(1852-05-04)4 May 1852 Westminster, London
Died	16 November 1934(1934-11-16) (aged 82) Westerham, Kent, England
Spouse(s)	Reginald Hargreaves
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Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (born Alice Pleasance Liddell (/ˈlɪdəl/), 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), when she asked him to tell her a story on a boating trip in Oxford. She married cricketer Reginald Hargreaves, and they had three sons.

Alice Liddell was the fourth child of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife Lorina Hanna Liddell (née Reeve). She had two older brothers, Harry (born 1847) and Arthur (born 1850, died of scarlet fever in 1853), and an older sister Lorina (born 1849). She also had six younger siblings, including her sister Edith (born 1854) to whom she was very close and her brother Frederick (born 1865), who was a lawyer and senior civil servant.

At the time of her birth, Liddell's father was the Headmaster of Westminster School but was soon after appointed to the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford. The Liddell family moved to Oxford in 1856. Soon after this move, she met Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who encountered the family while he was photographing the cathedral on 25 April 1856. He became a close friend of the Liddell family in subsequent years (see Relationship with Lewis Carroll below).

Alice was three years younger than Lorina and two years older than Edith, and the three sisters were constant childhood companions. She and her family regularly spent holidays at their holiday home Penmorfa, which later became the Gogarth Abbey Hotel, on the West Shore of Llandudno in North Wales.