Dodgson

People

Dodgson can be a surname. Its origin is "son of Roger", "Dodge" being a mediaeval nickname for Roger, as were Rodge and Hodge.

• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English mathematician, logician, clergyman, photographer and author better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll.
• Edwin Heron Dodgson, youngest brother of the above, clergyman and missionary
• Lewis Dodgson, a fictional minor character in Jurassic Park.
• Stephen Dodgson, a British composer.

Dodgson can also be a given name, following the practice of using an ancestor's surname as a child's given name.

• Dodgson Hamilton Madden, an Irish Unionist Party Member of Parliament (1887-92).
• John Dodgson Barrow, an American landscape painter.

Things

Dodgson is also used in some other contexts:

• Dodgson Condensation, a mathematical method named for its inventor, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.