Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson

Charles Dodgeson was born in 1832 and was the son of a clegyman.
His early life was spent being home educated and entertaining his sibling with magic, odd poems, and puppet plays.
No childhood was without faults, Charles had a deafend left ear after a case of Mumps and also a stamer.
He was educated at Chirstchurch in Oxford, when he graduated he stayed as a mathmatical lecturet in Chirstchurch, there he was a aqutent of the dean and the Dean's family the Liddles, the second daughter was Alice Liddle and on weekend the Liddle and Dodgeson would go on picnics where Dodgeson would tells stories, many made up from stories he told as a boy.
On one accastion the girls asked for a story and Dodgeson start what would a series of Stories centured and little Alice, the real Alice Liddle started to asked Dodgeson to write the story down, which he did with his sketches, when it was publish it featured sketches by John Tennual.
The reason why he went by the Pen name of Lewis Carroll; as he was a mathmatical lecturet he would publish books on maths if someone who was with a carrer as a mathmatical lecturet in Oxford punlishing a book of such nonsence in Victrorian England, he got the name Lewis Carroll, by turning his Middle and first names:
Lutwidge= Ludovic= Lewis
Charles= Carolus= Carroll
Dodgeson became a vicar and died in 1898 at 66 years old.
Proclaimed a Saint by the King (then Baron) of the 18th of August 2011.
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