Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest son of a clergyman in a family of eleven children. As a boy he entertained his brothers and sisters with games, puppet shows and handwritten family magazines. He studied at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he stayed for the rest of his life as a lecturer in mathematics. He was ordained a deacon in the Church of England. Dodgson was also one of the leading amateur photographers of his day. He became friends with the family of Henry Liddell, the dean of Christ Church, and on a boat trip on the Thames in 1862 he told the Liddell sisters a story about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole. At the request of Alice Liddell he wrote it down, and it was published in 1865 as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel. Through the Looking-Glass followed in 1871, and The Hunting of the Snark in 1876. He also published works on mathematics and logic. He died in Guildford in 1898.

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Faith: From a family of high-church Anglicans; he was an Anglican deacon. Source: Wikipedia