Robinson Duckworth original drawings painted in Palestine. The character of Duckworth in the TV show "Duck Tales" was named after him. Robinson Duckworth The Reverend Robinson Duckworth, DD, CVO, VD (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911), was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). He is represented by the Duck in the book, a play on his last name. He officiated at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882. Duckworth was the second son of Robinson Duckworth Sr. of Liverpool
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