Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (17 January 1802 – 28 May 1873) was an English barrister, Commissioner in Lunacy and early photographer. He was the uncle of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. He joined the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, in the 1850s.
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
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- 1802
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- 1873
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- photographer · barrister
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Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (17 January 1802 – 28 May 1873) was an English barrister, Commissioner in Lunacy and early photographer. He was the uncle of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. He joined the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, in the 1850s.
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Lewis Carroll and his family at Croft Rectory probably by Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge albumen print, circa 1858-1862 6 7/8 in. x 8 5/8 in. (175 mm x 219 mm) Purchased, 1977 NPG P32 sbírka © National Portrait Gallery, London Place made and portrayed: United
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
Portrait of Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge, half-length to right, in private dress, with hands clasped on the lap; after Eddis. 1835 Lithograph on chine collé
Print made by: William Drummond After: Eden Upton Eddis Printed by: Lefevre Kohler Published by: Thomas McLean
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- 1.University of Chicago Press. Amateurs, photography, and the mid-Victorian imagination. 135. 1986. 0-226-74498-1.
- 2.Clark (1979) p. 93
- 3.Cohen, Morton. Lewis Carroll: A Biography. Macmillan. 41. 1995. 0-333-62926-4.
- 4.Brian Watkin. Documents on health and social services, 1834 to the present day. Taylor & Francis. 579. 357. 1975. 0-416-18080-9.
- 5.Mellett, D. J. Bureaucracy and Mental Illness: The Commissioners in Lunacy 1845-90. Medical History. 25. 3. 221–250. 1981. 10.1017/s0025727300034566.
- 6.Clark (1979) p. 178
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