Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge [SEP] occupation
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (17 January 1802 – 28 May 1873) was an English barrister, Commissioner in Lunacy and early photographer. He was the uncle of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll.
He joined the Photographic Society of London, later the Royal Photographic Society, in the 1850s. He passed this interest on to his nephew Charles.
He was one of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy from 1842 to 1845 and was then appointed the first Secretary to the successor body,
Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, Lay (1845–1852)
- Robert Gordon, Lay (1845)
- Francis Barlow, Lay (1845)
- J. R. Southey, Medical (1845)
- James Cowles Prichard (1845–1848), Medical, in place of Southey who resigned
- James Mylne, Legal (1845)
- John Hancock Hall (1845)
- Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge (appointed 1855)
- Harry Davenport (appointed 1889)
- Edward Nugent, Earl of Milltown