Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898) is the pen name adopted by Charles Lutwidge Dotson, who was an English writer, mathematician, logician and Anglican deacon born into a conservative northern English family with strong involvements in the British Army and the Church of England.   He was educated at the Richmond Grammar School, Rugby School, and Oxford, where his gifts were evident but his academic performance uneven, suffering from a tendency towards distraction.  He won the Christchurch Mathematical Lectureship in 1855, which he held for 26 years.  He was noted for his gifts for word play, logic and fantasy.  The name Lewis Carroll itself is a play on words, with Lewis being derived from Lutwidge and Carroll derived from Charles.  These gifts are evident in Alice as well as in its sequel Through The Looking Glass and in the poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark.