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Samuel Lodge
The Rev. Samuel Lodge (11 February 1829 – 5 September 1897) was the author of ''Scrivelsby, the Home of the Queen's Champion, Champions'' He was a headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, Horncastle Grammar School, Lincolnshire, rector for 30 years of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, and a Canon (priest), Canon of Lincoln Cathedral. Life and works Samuel Lodge was born at Barking, London, Barking, Essex, a son of the Rev. Oliver Lodge (1764–1845) (latterly rector (ecclesiastical), rector of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire), and was educated at Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford, Lincoln College, Oxford University, Oxford. Ordained in 1852, Samuel Lodge was Classical master of King Edward VI Grammar School (Louth), Louth Grammar School from 1851 to 1854, and subsequently curate of High Toynton, Lincolnshire, and Headmaster of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, Horncastle Grammar School. He became rector (ecclesiastical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrivelsby
Scrivelsby is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the East Lindsey district of the County of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south of Horncastle and is on the B1183 road east from the A153 road. It is administered by the civil parish of Mareham on the Hill. Historically the manor was held by grand serjeanty, a form of feudal tenure which required the performance of a ceremonial service rather than a money payment – in this case as the King's Champion. History The manor of Scrivelsby is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scrivelesbi" and was held in-chief from the king. It then comprised 89 households, 16 villagers, 11 smallholders and 30 freemen, with 8.5 ploughlands, a meadow of , woodland of , a mill and a church. In 1086 the manor was held by ''Robert Dispensator'' (Latin) ("Robert the Bursar"). Robert was succeeded by his brother Urse d'Abetot, feudal baron of Salwarpe in Worcestershire. Shortly thereafter the manor was in the possession of Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Toynton
High Toynton is a village and civil parish"High Toynton Lincolnshire" . Retrieved 24 October 2011 in the East Lindsey district of , England. It is situated approximately east from the town of |
Carron O Lodge
Carron Angus Cyril Oliver Lodge (Born 1882, in Bruges, Belgium – 24 June 1910, in London) was an English figure and landscape painter. The son of a barrister, he trained as an artist and was a Royal Academy Schools student from 27 January 1903 to January 1908.https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/carron-angus-cyril-oliver-lodge He went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy between 1906-10. Lodge was the father of the black and white artist Francis Graham Lodge. At the age of 27, Carron Lodge died at home from an overdose of sulphonal. At the time his wife Winifred was expecting their second child. Exhibits * Royal Academy ** Cat No. 1048 Commerce in 1906 ** Cat No. 1453 The Good Samaritan in 1907 *** A watercolour drawing depicting a study for The Good Samaritan was given to the V&A by Carron's sister, Miss Winifred M. Lodge. The watercolour can be viewed in thV&A Collections Signed 'C. O. Lodge. 1905.' * New English Art Club in 1910 ** Cat No. 65 The Path to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Constance Lodge
__NOTOC__ Eleanor Constance Lodge (18 September 1869, Hanley, Staffordshire – 19 March 1936) was a British academic who served as vice-principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1906 to 1921 and then principal of Westfield College, Hampstead, in the University of London, from 1921 to 1931. Biography She was the youngest child, and only daughter, of Oliver Lodge (1826–1884), a china clay merchant, and his wife, Grace (née Heath) (1826–1879). Her siblings included Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist; Sir Richard Lodge (1855–1936), historian; and Alfred Lodge (1854–1937), mathematician.Frances Lannon, Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1869–1936), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 She studied history at Lady Margaret Hall until 1894. In 1895, Elizabeth Wordsworth asked her to come back to Lady Margaret Hall, where she became a librarian. She then studied in Paris, at the École des Chartes and the École des hautes études en s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard 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 and Principal of Westfield College, London; and Alfred Lodge (1854–1937), mathematician. Lodge matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1874, graduating B.A. in 1877, and becoming a Fellow of Brasenose College in 1878. He was Professor of History at the University of Glasgow 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 l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("''The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors''"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920. Lodge was also noted for his Spiritualist beliefs and pseudoscientifc research into life after death, a topic on which he wrote many books, including the best-selling ''Raymond; or, Life and Death'' (1916), describing what he believed to be detailed messages through a medium from his deceased adult son who was killed in World War I. Life Oliver Lodge was born in 1851 at 'The Views', Penkhull, then a rural village high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Myers (author)
Ernest James Myers (born at Keswick 13 October 1844; died at Etchingham, Sussex, 25 November 1921), was a British poet, Classicist and author. He was the second son of the Rev. Frederic Myers, author of ''Catholic Thoughts'', and Susan Harriett Myers (née Marshall). His elder brother was F W H Myers, the poet, critic and psychical researcher. Early life Educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, (where he won the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse in 1865), Ernest Myers became a fellow of Wadham College in 1868, teaching there for three years. In 1871, he moved to London, joining the Inner Temple and being called to the bar; however, he never practised as a barrister. Instead, he made his living as a translator and editor and also joined the committees of organisations such as the University Extension Society, the Charity Organisation Society, the Society for the Protection of Women & Children, and the Hellenic Society of which he was a founder member. Writing Mye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Edward Lodge
George Edward Lodge FZS, (3 December 1860 – 5 February 1954)Savory ''op. cit.'' was a British illustrator of birds and an authority on falconry. Early life George Edward Lodge was born at Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire. His father, Samuel Lodge (1829–1897), was a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral and rector of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire. G. E. Lodge was the seventh child of eleven, and the fifth son. His brother is the photographer Reginald Badham Lodge (1852–1937). He was educated at home, and became an accomplished taxidermist. He travelled abroad in search of birds and sport, visiting Norway, Sweden, the West Indies and the United States. He was, however, most at home in the Scottish Highlands. He attended Lincoln School of Art and studied and worked in LondonIn 1897, when he was elected a member of the British Ornithologists Union, he lived in the so-calle'Verulam Buildings'in Gray's Inn. In 1902 he moved to theThurloe Studios on Thurloe Square. before moving around 1920Accor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea, with The Wash to the north-west. The county town is the city of Norwich. With an area of and a population of 859,400, Norfolk is a largely rural county with a population density of 401 per square mile (155 per km2). Of the county's population, 40% live in four major built up areas: Norwich (213,000), Great Yarmouth (63,000), King's Lynn (46,000) and Thetford (25,000). The Broads is a network of rivers and lakes in the east of the county, extending south into Suffolk. The area is protected by the Broads Authority and has similar status to a national park. History The area that was to become Norfolk was settled in pre-Roman times, (there were Palaeolithic settlers as early as 950,000 years ago) with camps along the highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diss, Norfolk
Diss is a market town and electoral ward in South Norfolk, England, near the boundary with Suffolk, with a population of 7,572 in 2011. Diss railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line between London and Norwich. It lies in the valley of the River Waveney, round a mere covering and up to deep, although there is another of mud. History The town's name is from ''dic'', an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ditch or embankment. Diss has several historic buildings, including an early 14th-century parish church and an 1850s corn exchange still in use. Under Edward the Confessor, Diss was part of the Hartismere hundred of Suffolk, It was recorded as such in the 1086 Domesday book. It is recorded as being in the king's possession as demesne (direct ownership) of the Crown, there being at that time a church and a glebe of 24 acres (9.7 ha). This was thought to be worth £15 per annum, which had doubled by the time of William the Conqueror to £30, with the benefit of the whole hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dymoke
The Dymoke family of the Manor of Scrivelsby in the parish of Horncastle in Lincolnshire holds the feudal hereditary office of King's Champion. The functions of the Champion are to ride into Westminster Hall at the coronation banquet and challenge all comers who might impugn the King's title. History The earliest record of the ceremony at the coronation of an English king dates from the accession of King Richard II (1377–1399). On that occasion, the Champion was Sir John Dymoke (died 1381), who held the manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, in right of his wife Margaret, granddaughter of Joan Ludlow, who was a daughter and co-heiress of Philip Marmion, 5th Baron Marmion of Tamworth (died 1291), the last baron. The Marmion family claimed descent from the lords of Fontenay, hereditary Champions of the Dukes of Normandy, and were feudal barons of Tamworth in Nottinghamshire,Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manor Of Scrivelsby
Scrivelsby is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the East Lindsey district of the County of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south of Horncastle and is on the B1183 road east from the A153 road. It is administered by the civil parish of Mareham on the Hill. Historically the manor was held by grand serjeanty, a form of feudal tenure which required the performance of a ceremonial service rather than a money payment – in this case as the King's Champion. History The manor of Scrivelsby is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scrivelesbi" and was held in-chief from the king. It then comprised 89 households, 16 villagers, 11 smallholders and 30 freemen, with 8.5 ploughlands, a meadow of , woodland of , a mill and a church. In 1086 the manor was held by ''Robert Dispensator'' (Latin) ("Robert the Bursar"). Robert was succeeded by his brother Urse d'Abetot, feudal baron of Salwarpe in Worcestershire. Shortly thereafter the manor was in the possession of Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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