Dodgson, REV. CHARLES LUTWIDGE

Dodgson, REV. CHARLES LUTWIDGE ('Lewis Carroll'), was born at Daresbury, near Warrington, 27th Jan. 1832, and, entering Christ Church, Oxford, graduated B.A. in 1854 with a first-class in mathematics. He was elected a student of his college, took orders in 1861, from 1855 to 1881 was mathematical lecturer, and died 14th January 1898. He published some valuable mathematical works on Plane Trigonometry (1861), Determinants (1867), Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879), Curiosa Mathematica (1889), &c. As Lewis Carroll (whom he carefully distinguished from his other self) he issued in 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (86th thousand 1897), which, with its continuation Through the Looking-glass (1872), has become a nursery classic; Phantasmagoria (1869), Hunting of the Snark (1876), Doublets (1879), Rhyme? and Reason? (1883; new ed. 1897), A Tangled Tale (1886), Game of Logic (1887), and Sylvie and Bruno (1889-93). Symbolic Logic (1896), however, bore to be written by Lewis Carroll. See Life by S. D. Collingwood (1899).