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 (priest) College, Oxford, and who was a friend of Dodgson, used to walk over to visit Daresbury on Sundays, sometimes helping with the church services. Bayne would bring his son Vere, who became a lifelong friend of the young Charles Lutwidge. Other friends and visitors included Richard Durnford, Rector of Middleton, Lancashire; Francis Egerton, Member of Parliament for South Lancashire and John Wilson Patten, MP for North Lancashire. Dodgson was concerned about the canal workers on the Bridgewater Canal running past his parish. Together with Egerton, who was a wealthy local landowner, he converted a barge into a floating chapel, moored