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
Edwin Dodgson priest in 1874, and served his first curacy at Odd Rode in the Diocese of Chester. Following this he served as curate at Helmsley (1875-1877), and at All Saints, Shrewsbury (1877-1879). His subsequent ministry was one of self-sacrifice and dedication, marred by ill health and depression. Dodgson was appointed as Principal of the (UMCA) Kiungani School in Zanzibar in 1879, where he served under Bishop Edward Steere. However, as his brother Charles noted, "the ague was too much for him there". In 1880 he was appointed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) as missionary and school