Stephen Dodgson Stephen Dodgson Stephen Cuthbert Vivian Dodgson (17 March 192413 April 2013) was a British composer and broadcaster. Dodgson's prolific musical output covered most genres, ranging from opera and large-scale orchestral music to chamber and instrumental music, as well as choral works and song. Three instruments to which he dedicated particular attention were the guitar, harpsichord and recorder. He wrote in a mainly tonal, although sometimes unconventional, idiom. Some of his works use unusual combinations of instruments. Stephen Dodgson was born in Chelsea, London in 1924, the third child of John Dodgson, a symbolist painter and distant cousin of Lewis Carroll,
John Charlesworth Dodgson-Charlesworth Wakefield did not elect another MP until 1862. On the death of his father Dodgson-Charlesworth inherited Chapelthorpe Hall and continued to live there, managing his colliery business until his death in 1880. John Charlesworth Dodgson-Charlesworth John Charlesworth Dodgson-Charlesworth (1815–1880) was a British colliery owner and Member of Parliament for Wakefield between 1857 and 1859. Defeated by his Liberal opponent, William Henry Leatham at the 1859 general election both he and Leatham were subsequently found to have conducted extensive bribery during the campaign. Dodgson-Charlesworth was the son of John Dodgson Charlesworth of Chapelthorpe, Sandal, Wakefield. Baptised 20 August 1815, he was