Campbell Dodgson Campbell Dodgson Campbell Dodgson, CBE, FBA (13 August 1867–11 July 1948) was an art historian and museum curator. He was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 1912–32. Campbell Dodgson was the sixth son and seventh child of William Oliver Dodgson, a London stockbroker, and Lucy Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Henley Smith who owned the Priory on the Isle of Wight. He was a distant cousin of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as author Lewis Carroll. He was born at Crayford, Kent, the 7th child and 6th son of William Oliver Dodgson, a stockbroker, and his
Charles Dodgson (bishop) Cumberland and becoming Rector of Kirby Wiske in 1755. He was tutor to Lord Algernon Percy, the son of the Duke of Northumberland; in 1762, the Duke gave him the parish of Elsdon, Northumberland. Dodgson was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1762. Rapidly promoted, he was nominated to the bishopric of Ossory on 22 June and consecrated at St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin on 11 August 1765 by William Carmichael, Archbishop of Dublin. Ten years later, he was translated to the bishopric of Elphin by letters patent on 12 April 1775. King George III congratulated him on