[1] In 1827, Dodgson married his cousin, Frances Jane "Fanny" Lutwidge and was thereby required to give up his college position.

The headmaster of Warrington School, Thomas Vere Bayne, who had studied at Jesus College, Oxford,[5] and who was a friend of Dodgson, used to walk over to visit Daresbury on Sundays, sometimes helping with the church services.

Together with Egerton, who was a wealthy local landowner, he converted a barge into a floating chapel, moored at Preston Brook, and held weekly services there for the bargees.

[8][9] In 1843 Dodgson was given the Crown living of Croft, Yorkshire, by the Prime Minister, Robert Peel, at the urging of Longley.

At Croft he restored the chancel of St Peter's Church and once again started a school, sacrificing part of the glebe to it.