Profile

Born - 27 January 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire. 

Entered Rugby School - February 1846

Boarding House - School House

Head Master and House Master - Archibald Campbell Tait

Tutor – Mr Cotton

School Prizes – Lower Mathematical Prize September 1847

Left Rugby School - 1848

Famous for – writing Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass

Died - 14 January 1898, Guildford, Surrey

Events at Rugby School 1846-1848

1846 - Second written code of School Football Rules drawn up. Sanctioned by a Levee of Bigside on the 7th September. 

A part of the original Rugby School Chapel window, picturing St. Luke, in the West wall of the North transept, presented by members of the VIth form. The Arnold Library and Arnold Museum were established in memory of Head Master Thomas Arnold.

1847 - The Island Moat was drained and filled in. The Green Pavilion was built. 

1848 - A Fives Court was erected this year in what is now New Quad, on the site of some old cottages which were purchased and pulled down. 

A prize was founded by Queen Victoria (Gold Medal) for English Essay on historical

subjects.

Image - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), painted by Miss K Lloyd, in the twentieth century, after Hurbert Von Herkomer. After the picture in the Great Hall of Christ Church Oxford.