Lewis Carroll the author of the Alice stories was an Oxford don, what was his subject
University of Oxford Botanic Garden Oxford mathematics professor Lewis Carroll and the Liddell children, Alice and her sisters. Like many of the places and people of Oxford, it was a source of inspiration for Carroll's stories in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". The Garden's waterlily house can be seen in the background of Sir John Tenniel's illustration of "The Queen's Croquet-Ground". Another Oxford professor and author, J. R. R. Tolkien, often spent his time at the garden reposing under his favourite tree, "Pinus nigra". The enormous Austrian pine was much like the Ents of his "The Lord of the Rings" story, the walking, talking tree-people of
Alice Liddell Alice Liddell Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, "née" Liddell (; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), was, in her childhood, an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the children's classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Although she shared her name with the heroine of the story, scholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her. She married cricketer Reginald Hargreaves, and they had three sons. Alice Liddell was the fourth of the ten children of Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford,