Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Cheshire in 1832, the eldest son and third child in a family of seven girls and four boys. He grew up to become a mathematics lecturer at Oxford University, where he made friends with the dean of Christ Church, Henry George Liddell, and his family (including his daughter, Alice). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first told on a picnic in 1862.