Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) was born 'Charles Lutwidge Dodgson' in England in 1832. His family had extended connections to the army and the church. With his great-grandfather being a bishop, and his grandfather a captain in the army; killed in action in 1803. His own father got a double first from Oxford, but decided not to pursue an academic career; and instead became a country parson. Like his father , the younger Charles, went on to Oxford to study mathematics, and he too was very gifted. Unlike his father however, he did commence an academic career. He took up the new art form of photography in 1856, and excelled at it. It was also in this year that he published the first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. Alice in Wonderland was published in 1862, and a star was born. He continued to write, pursue academia, and travel widely. He bought a house in Guildford, where he died, suddenly of violent pneumonia on January 14th 1898.