"His reverence for sacred things was so great that he was never known to relate a story which included a jest upon words from the Bible."
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Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 8
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Charles Dodgson (archdeacon)
Charles Dodgson (2 November 1800 – 21 June 1868) was an English clergyman; he was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1854 to his death in 1868. He was the grandson of Charles Dodgson (bishop), the father of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the grandfather of Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.
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