Lewis Carroll alias Charles Dodgson, who wrote Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
He was a mathematician at Oxford and is commemorated in Guildford by
- His grave (in the graveyard on the Mount by the chapel)
- a statue of Alice and a rabbit disappearing down a hole on the riverside (River Wey) at Millmead in the centre of Guildford.
- Another metal statue of Alice going through the Looking Glass in the Castle grounds just behind Lewis Carroll's sisters' house (he bought it for his 3 sisters).
Joel Birenbaum's page on Lewis Carroll is good too.
Alan Turing (1912-1954)
the founder of modern computing. He was brought up in Guildford and
his biographer,
Andrew Hodges in "Alan Turing: the Enigma" mentions that he used to walk
around Guildford as a young lad discussing his ideas on computing with his mother.
He lived at 22 Ennismore Avenue by Stoke Park in Guildford during his school days.
There is a plaque on the house commemorating Turing's early life in Guildford.
References and Links to other sites:
- Glasgow's Turing Institute,
- St Andrew's brief biography
- The Universe in a Handkerchief, Martin Gardner's new book from Springer on Lewis Carroll's mathematical recreations, games, puzzles and word plays - "a fun and informative tour".
