Dodgson, Edward Spencer

Biographical information

Geoffrey West, “Edward Spencer Dodgson: The Basque Language, and the British Museum Library,” eBLJ (2021). Traveled, spent periods in asylums, studied languages (Basque, but also Celtic languages); a reader of the OED. In 1918 described by a judge as a “nasty old man” and sentenced to three months’ hard labor for the indecent assault of a younger man (Gilliver)

Gender

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Signatures Used

• Antiquarius
• Wykehamicus
• E. S. D.
• Heuscarologus Anglicanus
• Palamedes

Notes

“Wykehamicus”, as Dodgson was educated at Winchester. “Heuscarologus Anglicanus” stands for “English Basque-lover” (“Basque” = “Euskara”). “E. S. Dodgson” and “Edward S. Dodgson” from NQ 6.4.7 to 12.9.92

Articles

Writing as Antiquarius

• Weathercocks

  NQ 6.12.515, Source

Writing as E. S. D.

• Bishop Ken

  NQ 6.2.48, Source

Writing as Heuscarologus Anglicanus

• Nigaristan

  NQ 8.1.229, Source

• Christ Cross Row Alphabet

  NQ 8.3.428-429, Source

• Queen Elizabeth's Ghost

  NQ 8.4.128, Source

Writing as Palamedes

• Asses Braying for Tinkers' Deaths

  NQ 9.1.46, Source

• The Division of our New Testament

  NQ 8.12.88, Source

• Ancestors

  NQ 8.12.133–134, Source

• Unpublished Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

  NQ 8.12.166, Source

• Diamond Jubilee Commemoration Service

  NQ 8.12.170, Source

• Oldest Trees in the World

  NQ 8.12.171, Source

• Invention of the Guillotine

  NQ 8.12.176, Source

• Luther an Irish Surname

  NQ 8.12.211, Source

• Enid

  NQ 8.12.238, Source

• 'De Imitatione Christi'

  NQ 8.12.257, Source

• The Lord's Prayer against Druidism

  NQ 8.12.347, Source

• The Etymology of Irish "Tonn"

  NQ 8.12.429, Source

• Philip, Duke of Wharton, and his Tomb at Poblet

  NQ 8.12.488, Source

Writing as Wykehamicus

• William of Wykeham : Winchester Cathedral &c

  NQ 6.1.515, Source