Educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1854 
        with a first class in mathematics. He took orders in 1861, and was
        mathematical lecturer 1855-1881 and introduced logical problems into
        the nursery with "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), which, with its
        continuation "Through the looking glass" (1872) and its illustrations
        by Tenniel, rapidly became a nursery---indeed a household---classic
        and has been widely translated. "Alice" to whom the story was
        originally related during boating excursions, was the second daughter
        of Henry George Liddell. Dodgson also published "Phantasmagoria"
        (1869), "Hunting of the Snark" (1876), "Euclid and his Modern Rivals"
        (1879), "Sylvie and Bruno" (1889-1893 illustrated by Furniss),
        "Curiosa Mathematica" (1888-1893), "Symbolic Logic" (1896) and "What 
        the Tortoise said to Achilles" in 'Mind' (1895).
 

Source: Chambers's Biographical Dictionary.