Charles Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carrol, was a British author, writer, philosopher, mathematician, logician and photographer. Dodgson’s family was predominantly norther English with Irish connections and inclining towards the two good old upper middle class professions of the army and the Church. Young Charles was born in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire, the oldest boy, but already the third child of the four-and-a-half year marriage. Dodgson grew out of infancy into a bright, articulate boy. In the early years he was educated at home. In January 1851 he went to Oxford to his father’s old college. He may not always have worked hard, but he was exceptionally gifted and achievement came easily to him. Through his own laziness, he failed an important scholarship. In 1856 he took up the new art form of photography. His favorite subjects for photography were portraits of famous persons. The young adult Charles Dodgson was about6 foot tall, slender and handsome in a soft-focused dreamy sort of way, with curling brown hair and blue eyes. In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that make him famous – Lewis Carrol. On one expedition in 1862 Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and largest commercial success – the first Alice book. The work was finally published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, under the pen name Dodgson has first used some nine years earlier – Lewis Carroll. He also published many mathematical papers under his own name, bought a house in Guildford, where he died suddenly of violent pneumonia on January 14, 1898 leaving mystery and enigma behind him.