Lewis Carroll
1832–98

Charles Luttwidge Dodgson (‘Lewis Carroll’), was born at Daresbury, near Warrington, on 27 January 1832, and was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1854 with a first-class in mathematics. He took orders in 1861, and was mathematical lecturer 1855–81. He died 14th January 1898. He issued in 1865 Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland, which, with its continuation, Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and its illustrations by Tenniel, rapidly became a nursery – indeed a household – classic and has been widely translated. ’Alice,’ to whom the story was originally related during boating excursions, was the second daughter (d. 1934) of Henry George Liddell (q.v.). Dodgson also published Phantasmagoria (1869), Hunting of the Snark (1876), Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879), Sylvie and Bruno (1889-93, illustrated By Furniss), Curiosa and Mathematica (1888-93), and Symbolic Logic (1896).