Edwin Dodgson Edwin Dodgson Edwin Heron Dodgson (30 June 1846 – 3 January 1918), a clergyman in the Church of England, was the youngest brother of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". He is primarily remembered for his work as a missionary in the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean, the most remote human settlement in the world. Edwin Dodgson was born in Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, the eleventh and youngest child of the Rev. Charles Dodgson, Vicar of Croft and Archdeacon of Richmond, and his wife Frances Jane Dodgson, "née" Lutwidge. His second
Campbell Dodgson the War Office; his 1918 CBE was a recognition of this work (DNB, 1941-50 : 216). He was the editor, in the 1920s, of "The Print Collector’s Quarterly". He was also a contributor to the "Burlington Magazine" and to the Dictionary of National Biography. Dodgson married Frances Catherine Spooner, daughter of William Archibald Spooner (Warden of New College and the eponymous author of 'Spoonerisms'), in 1913 (DNB, 1941-50 : 216). Dodgson gave generously to the British Museum during his Keepership, but at the same time amassed a very large collection of over 5,000 prints which he bequeathed to the Museum.