Richard Lodge

Sir Richard Lodge (20 June 1855 – 2 June 1936) was a British historian.

Biography

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.

Death

He died on 2 June 1936 aged 80; he was buried at Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.

Works

• Richelieu (1896)
• The Close of the Middle Ages, 1273-1494 (1901)
• The History of England from the Restoration to the Death of William III. (1660-1702) (1910)
• Great Britain & Prussia in the Eighteenth Century (1923)
• Studies in Eighteenth-century Diplomacy, 1740-1748 (1930)

External links

• Works by Richard Lodge at Hathi Trust
• Photographic portraits of Sir Richard Lodge at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Academic offices
Preceded by Thomas Frederick Tout	President of the Royal Historical Society 1929–1933	Succeeded by F.M. Powicke