Lewis Carroll
thence to Christ Church, Oxford. He was mathematically gifted and won a double
first degree, which could have been the prelude to a brilliant academic career.
Instead he married his first cousin in 1827 and became a country parson.
Young Charles' father was an active and highly conservative clergyman of the
Anglican church who later became Archdeacon of Richmondand involved
himself, sometimes influentially, in the intense religious disputes that were
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.
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