Talk:Charles Dodgson (bishop)

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because he was for many years a bishop of the Church of ireland, clearly an important position in 18th century Ireland. --Collingwood (talk) 20:38, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Fellow of the Royal Society

I'm not sure why he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. I was checking inward links to the aricle and he appeared on the Royal Society Fellows page and double-checked to make sure it was him; sure enough, he was elected in 1762 and that date precludes any elevation on account of his clerical position, which would have been unlikely anyway. The question is why? I can't quite discover what his field of expertise was, but an elevation to FRS is no mean feat, so I will assume he was highly proficient in whatever it was. If anyone wants to follow this up, please do. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 01:59, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

The Duke of Northumberland was a fellow and presumably nominated him.--Collingwood (talk) 07:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Indeed so, but in fairness to the Royal Society, the Society were (and I'm sure still are) quite a meritocratic bunch; election to a Fellowship of the RS in particular generally required a substantial contribution to a field of study. Unfortunately I am reduced to guessing at what the field was. Sifting through various Royal Society reports, the only thing I have found so far is Dodgson submitting a report on meteorological research to the Society on behalf of Bishop Hugh Hamilton but that's more likely due to Dodgson being in London rather than a tangible show of expertise. If I was to hazard a guess, it could well be that his elevation to FRS was an acknowledgement of expertise in the (other) family business: mathematics. Maybe it is just a feeling, but I do suspect there is something worth pursuing thereFlowerpotmaN·(t) 00:32, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

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