Eleanor Constance Lodge (18 September 1869,

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– 19 March 1936) was a British academic who served as vice-principal of

Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formally known under ...

, Oxford from 1906 to 1921 and then principal of

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, in the

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, from 1921 to 1931.

Biography

She was the youngest child, and only daughter, of Oliver Lodge (1826–1884), a

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merchant, and his wife, Grace (née Heath) (1826–1879). Her siblings included

Sir Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation contributed to the development of radio communication. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent o ...

(1851–1940), physicist; Sir Richard Lodge (1855–1936), historian; and

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(1854–1937), mathematician.Frances Lannon, �
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004 She studied history at Lady Margaret Hall until 1894. In 1895,

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asked her to come back to Lady Margaret Hall, where she became a librarian. She then studied in Paris, at the

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and the

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, 1898–1899. In 1899, she started teaching History at LMH as a tutor, and was appointed as vice-principal in 1906. Although she expected to be appointed as the principal after Henrietta Jex-Blake retired, this didn't happen, and she decided to leave Oxford. She asked for a teaching job in

, London. She was in fact appointed as principal of this college, in succession to Bertha Phillpotts, in 1921. She was the first woman recipient of a

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by the

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, in 1928, which was awarded for her work in the field of

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. She was honoured by a

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in 1932. She died aged 66 on 19 March 1936 in

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and was buried at

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, near

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Published works

*''Life of the Black Prince'', By

Chandos Herald Chandos Herald (floruit, fl. 1360s-1380s) for ''Chandos le héraut'' is the name used to refer to the author of a poem about the life of The Black Prince in Anglo-Norman language. He is so-called because he was the herald of the English warlord John ...

. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.Chandos Herald, a. 1350-1380., Lodge, E. C., Pope, M. K. (Mildred Katharine). (1910)
Life of the Black Prince
Oxford: Clarendon press. Editor, with Mildred K. Pope. *''Gascony under English Rule'' (London, 1926)

References

Sources

* * Frances Lannon, �
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lodge, Eleanor 1869 births 1936 deaths People from Hanley, Staffordshire 20th-century English historians 20th-century English women writers British women historians Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford People associated with Westfield College Members of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council Women councillors in England Burials at Wolvercote Cemetery