Lewis Carroll was a better known name, but his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England. He died on January 14, 1898 in Guilford, England.
Lewis Carroll was known for writing Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, but he wasn’t really a writer, he was a mathematician.

Lewis Carroll got his name by translating “Charles Lutwidge” into Latin as “Carolus Lodovicus” Then he reversed their order.
Lewis’s father was born in 1800 and studied at the University of Oxford. His name was Charles also, Charles Senior, while he was at the University he earned a first class degree in mathematics and classics. At Oxford he held a fellowship and was appointed a mathematics lecturer. He had to give up his Oxford fellowship because he married his cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1827. After leaving Oxford he became a curate at All Saints’ Church in Daresbury. It was in Daresbury that 10 of their 11 kids were born.

Lewis was the third child he had two older sisters, Fanny born in 1828 and Elizabeth born in 1830. Lewis was Baptized on July 11, 1832 in his fathers church. Lewis grew up in a really strict Christian household and him and his brothers and sisters were home schooled. Lewis read mostly religious books and to prove his progress he was able to read Pilgrams Progress, he read that at the age of seven. Lewis really looked up to his father, and that’s why he went into mathematics. Lewis wasn’t the only one who wanted him to be like his father, his father also wanted Lewis to be like him so he tried really hard to accomplish that.

While the Dodgson family lived at Daresbury they struggled financially. So their father decided to switch and become a vicar at Croft-on-trees in Yorkshire in 1843 and there he got a better income. At Yorkshire they got to live in a very nice house. On August 1 1843 Lewis entered Richmond school as a boarder. He lived in the headmaster’s house. Since the school was only ten miles from his house his parents got to visit him a week after he arrived, when they arrived they found out that he was adjusting very well to a new place and that he liked it very much. While at this school he received an excellent foundation for his education, while also excelling in mathematics. When Lewis turned 14 he was enrolled at Rugby. He turned 14 on January 27, 1846! He was a very shy boy with a stammer. Being that way he was bullied a lot. Even though he was very unhappy he still got very good grades, also receiving lots of prizes and awards. Mathematics was his favorite and best subject but he did very well in all of his subjects.

In 1843 he suffered a lot of illnesses, the first being the whooping cough. Whooping cough left him with a cough and every now and then it would come back. Then the next was the mumps. The mumps left him half deaf in his right ear.
He left Rugby in December of 1849. That following May he went to the University of Oxford and continued his studies there. Lewis’s father had gone to Christ Church College Oxford and so he had wished that Lewis would attend there just like him, so he did. Although things did not start very well for Lewis, there were a shortage of accommodation and he had to return to his parent’s house and wait. Lewis was able to return to Oxford and live with the Reverend Jacob Ley, a very good friend of his fathers.

Lewis got the idea for Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland from Henry George Liddell’s children. Henry was the dean of Christ Church. Lewis always took real well to children he could really speak to them and understand them.

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