Edwin H. Dodgson
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Edwin Heron Dodgson (1846 – 1918) was a clergyman in the Church of England. He was the youngest brother of Charles L. Dodgson, author of the Alice in Wonderland books under the pen-name Lewis Carroll.
Edwin Dodgson was the last-born son of the Rev. Charles Dodgson, the Anglican archdeacon of Ripon cathedral, and his wife Frances Jane Dodgson, née Lutwidge. His mother died when Edwin was five years old and he was raised by his maiden aunt Lucy Lutwidge. Edwin was educated at Twyford and Rugby. He worked briefly for the Board of Trade before training for the Anglican priesthood at Chichester Theological College.
Dodgson served under Bishop Edward Steere as a missionary in Zanzibar, in eastern Africa. In 1880 he was appointed by the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge as a missionary to the South Atlantic Islands. He served as pastor in Tristan da Cunha, the most isolated human settlement in the world, from 1881 to 1884, when he had to leave because of ill health. After he learned that a large portion of the adult male population there had perished in a boat accident in 1885, Dodgson actively sought to aid the surviving inhabitants and returned to Tristan da Cunha in 1886. He remained there until 1889.
In 1981, Tristan da Cunha issued three stamps commemorating the centennary of the Rev. Dodgson's arrival upon the islands.
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