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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2010}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]] [[Canon (priest)|Canon]] | name = Robinson Duckworth | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CVO|VD}} | image = robinson-duckworth.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Duckworth, {{circa}} 1873 | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 4 December 1834 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|20 September 1911|4 December 1834}} | death_place = | nationality = British | other_names = | occupation = Clergyman | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | module = {{Infobox clergy | child=yes | religion = [[Anglicanism]] | church = [[Church of England]] | ordained = | laicised = | writings = | congregations = [[St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace]] (1870β1906) | offices_held = Sub-Dean and Canon of [[Westminster Abbey]] <br /> [[Chaplain-in-Ordinary]] to [[Queen Victoria]] and [[King Edward VII]] }} | module2 = {{Infobox academic | child=yes | education = [[Royal Institution School]] | alma_mater = [[University College, Oxford]] | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline β e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area β e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = [[Trinity College, Oxford]] | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany]] | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = }} }} [[File:Robinson Duckworth.png|thumb|right|150px|Rev. Robinson Duckworth, by [[Carlo Pellegrini (caricaturist)|Ape]] in ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', 1886]] [[File:Robinson Duckworth.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Robinson Duckworth (April 1890)]] '''Robinson Duckworth''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CVO|VD}} (4 December 1834 β 20 September 1911) was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice's adventures]] were first told by [[Lewis Carroll]] (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). He is represented by the [[Duck (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Duck]] in the book, a play on his last name. He officiated at the funeral of [[Charles Darwin]] in 1882.
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