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
Skeffington Lutwidge returned to Britain to be refitted and re-coppered in early 1779, after which she returned to North America, capturing the American privateer "Gates" on 29 September 1779. He was involved in the capture of a Spanish convoy on 8 January 1780, and on the night of 16 and 17 January Lutwidge was part of Admiral George Rodney's fleet against Juan de Lángara at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. His final duties with the "Triton" were to escort a convoy to Menorca and then to the Leeward Islands. Lutwidge then briefly took command of the 74-gun third rate and sailed