Name Richard Lodge | ||
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Died 1936, Harpenden, United Kingdom Siblings Eleanor Constance Lodge, Alfred Lodge People also search for Eleanor Constance Lodge, Alfred Lodge, Oliver Lodge, Grace Lodge, M. P. Shiel Books Studies in Eighteenth‑century Diplomac, The Lord of the Sea, Cardinal Beaufort ‑ Scholar's, The History of England from the, 2100 | ||
Parents Oliver Lodge, Grace Lodge | ||
Sir Richard Lodge (20 June 1855 – 2 June 1936) was a British historian.
He was born at Penkhull, Staffordshire, the fourth of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge (1826-1884) – later a china clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire - and his wife, Grace (née Heath) (1826-1879). His siblings included Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), physicist; Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869-1936), historian & Principal of Westfield College, London; and Alfred Lodge (1854-1937), mathematician.
He was Professor of History at the University of Glasgow from 1894-1899 and then Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1925. During his time at Edinburgh he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university and was a founder of the Edinburgh University Settlement charity which established houses for students and fellows to live amongst the poor of the city. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and in due course became its president (1929–1933). He was knighted in 1917.
He died on 2 June 1936 aged 80; he was buried at Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.
Publications
Lodge’s many publications included a biography of Richelieu in 1896.