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Eleanor Constance Lodge (18 September 1869,

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

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, 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

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(1851–1940), physicist;

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 � ...

(1855–1936), historian; and

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(1854–1937), mathematician.Frances Lannon, �
Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1869–1936)
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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

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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

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, 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

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. 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 First women admitted to degrees at Oxford 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