Self portrait of Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pseudonym, Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican deacon, author, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is best known as the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and many poems. He was born in Cheshire, England on 27 January 1832, and died in Surrey on 14 January 1898. He was ordained a deacon on 22 December 1861. For reasons not clear, Dodgson delayed, then finally rejected priestly orders. He lectured in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford for twenty-six years.