Lewis Carroll in Numberland by Robin Wilson

Author:Robin Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

University Whimsy

As we have seen, there were occasions on which Dodgson’s sense of humour extended to University issues. In the early 1860s there was much discussion about the stipend of the Regius Professor of Greek, the Revd Benjamin Jowett. When the Professorship was founded in the sixteenth century the annual salary was £40; three hundred years later it was still £40. Jowett was a highly controversial figure who later became a distinguished Master of Balliol College, but his religious views were regarded by many people (including Dodgson) as heretical. The matter came to a head in 1865, when new salaries of £400 and £500 were proposed.

In March 1865 Dodgson recorded in his diary that

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