Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge in 1855. He died in May 1873 from injuries inflicted by a patient in Fisherton House Asylum, Salisbury, during an inspection. Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (17 January 1802 – 28 May 1873) was an English barrister, Commissioner in Lunacy and early photographer. He was the uncle of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. He joined the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, in the 1850s. He passed this interest on to his nephew Charles. He was one of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1842 to 1845 and was then appointed
Lewis Carroll his two sons were hardly more than babies. The older of these sons – yet another Charles Dodgson – was Carroll's father. He went to Westminster School and then to Christ Church, Oxford. He reverted to the other family tradition and took holy orders. He was mathematically gifted and won a double first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career. Instead, he married his first cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1830 and became a country parson. Dodgson was born in the small parsonage at Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn, the