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dividing the Anglican church. He was High Church, inclining to Anglo
Catholicism, an admirer of Newman and the Tractarian movement, and did his
best to instill such views in his children. Young Charles was to develop an
ambiguous relationship with his father's values and with the Anglican church as a
whole.
Dodgson was born in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire county (near
the towns of Warrington and Runcorn), the eldest boy but already the third child
of the fourandahalfyearold marriage. Eight more children were to follow.
When Charles was 11, his father was given the living of CroftonTees in North
Yorkshire, and the whole family moved to the spacious Rectory. This remained
their home for the next twentyfive years.
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