Background
Charles Dodgson was born in 1800 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, the son of Charles Dodgson, an army captain, and grandson of Charles Dodgson, Bishop of Elphin.
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Charles Dodgson
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Education
He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1821 with a double first in mathematics and classics.
Career
He was the father of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. He was elected a Student of Christ Church and taught mathematics there until 1827. He was appointed to a college living as Perpetual Curate of All Saints" Church, Daresbury.
The living was not a wealthy one and Dodgson ran a school in the village to supplement his income.
In 1836 he was additionally appointed Examining Chaplain to Charles Longley, the newly created Bishop of Ripon. Dodgson was concerned about the canal workers on the Bridgewater Canal running past his parish.
Together with Egerton, who was a wealthy local landowner, he converted a barge into a floating chapel, moored at Preston Brook, and held weekly services there for the bargees. In 1843 Dodgson was given the Crown living of Croft, Yorkshire, by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, at the urging of Longley.
In 1852 he was additionally collated as a canon of Ripon Cathedral and in 1854 became the Archdeacon of Richmond.
At Croft he restored the chancel of Street Peter"s Church and once again started a school, sacrificing part of the glebe to lieutenant Dodgson was a "Puseyite" and contributed the volume on Tertullian to Pusey"s series Library of the Fathers. All told he wrote twenty-four books on theology and religious subjects.
Dodgson"s wife died on 26 January 1851 and he died on 21 June 1868.
Membership
Other friends and visitors included Richard Durnford, Rector of Middleton, Lancashire. Francis Egerton, Member of Parliament for South Lancashire and John Wilson Patten, Member of Parliament for North Lancashire.
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June 21, 1868 (aged 68)