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
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