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Theophilus Carter (1824–1904) was an eccentric British furniture dealer thought to be an inspiration for the illustration by Sir John Tenniel of Lewis Carroll's characters the Mad Hatter in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and Hatta in ''Through the Looking-Glass''. ==Inventor and craftsman== Some writers claim that Carter was a servitor at Christ Church, one of the University of Oxford's colleges during the 1850s and 1860s, at the same time that Lewis Carroll was there. However, there is no evidence for this claim (see below). It is claimed by some sources that Carter invented The Alarm Clock Bed, exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and which tipped out the sleeper at waking-up time into a tub of cold water.〔''The Sunday Times Magazine'' 24 May 2009 pg 5〕 However, while an alarm clock bed was indeed displayed at the Exhibition – in fact two were – Carter's name is lacking in both the Exhibition's catalogue and any other known documentation. He was a cabinet-maker and owned a furniture and upholstery shop at 48–49 High Street in Oxford; from 1875 to 1883 at No. 48,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=48: Fitrite )〕 and from 1861 to 1894 at No.49,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=49: Honey's Newsagent )〕 where he employed five men. Census records for 1881 show that Carter lived above this shop with his wife, Mary Anne Carter, daughter, grand-daughter and two servants.〔〔
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