Lewis Carroll

By Samuel Potter, ?/07

Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson in 1832, in Daresbury, England. As a young man he attended Christchurch College of Oxford University and graduated in 1854. He went on to become a mathematics professor at Christchurch in 1855. Carroll also became a deacon in the Anglican Church in 1861. Throughout his life one of Carroll’s hobbies was writing. His two most famous books were Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Carroll loved children and the Alice books were written for a little friend of his named Alice Liddel. One day he was boating with Alice and her two sisters and started to tell them the story of Alice in Wonderland. He enlarged the story and it was published in1865. Carroll also wrote other short stories and several books on mathematics. He was also an excellent photographer. Lewis Carroll died in 1898 at the age of 66.