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Writer, born in Daresbury, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became a lecturer in mathematics (1855--81).
He is best know for writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1872), which quickly became classics. The real "Alice", to whom the story was originally related during boating excursions, was the daughter of Henry George Liddell, the head of Dodgson's Oxford college.
He wrote a great deal of humorous verse, such as "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), as well as several mathematical works (of which some is reproduced on this website).
He lived much of his life in the N of England.
