John Lodge (archivist)
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John Lodge (1692–1774) was an English archivist and historian, best known for his work ''The Peerage of Ireland'', a complete genealogical history of Irish peers.


Life

Lodge was born into a farming family in Bolton-le-Sands,
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-farmer, Edmund Lodge. He was educated at a school in
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, under Mr. Ashe, and was admitted sub-sizar of
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on 26 June 1716. He graduated B.A. in 1719; was ordained a
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in 1720 and as a priest at Ely in 1721; then became a schoolteacher at
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in 1725, and was awarded his M.A. in 1730. He went on to settle in
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. In 1744, he published a ''Report of the Trial in Ejectment of Campbell Craig'', from his own shorthand notes. In 1751 he was appointed deputy-keeper of the records in Bermingham Tower of
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; in 1759 he became deputy-clerk and keeper of the rolls, and was subsequently deputy-registrar of the court of prerogative. He died at
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, on 22 February 1774.


Family

He married, first, Miss Hamilton, who claimed kinship with the Abercorn family; and, secondly, Edwarda Galland. His son, William Lodge LL.D. (1742–1813), the only survivor of his nine children, became in 1790 chancellor of Armagh Cathedral, and was rector of Derrynoose and rector of Kilmore in the same diocese. Some of John Lodge's books, with marginal notes and corrections, came into the Armagh Library, which about 1867 acquired other John Lodge papers by purchase from a great-grandson.


Works

Lodge's chief work, ''The Peerage of Ireland'', comprises four volumes, and was published in 1754. His own interleaved copy, with numerous manuscript notes, is now in the British Library (Add MSS 23703-23708). A second edition, revised and enlarged to seven volumes by Mervyn Archdall, was published in 1789. In 1770 Lodge published anonymously ''The Usage of Holding Parliaments and Preparing and Passing Bills of Supply in Ireland'', and in 1772, also without his name, a selection of state papers and historical tracts illustrating the political systems of the chief governors and government of Ireland during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, which he called ''Desiderata curiosa Hibernica''. His collection of record indexes were deposited in 1783 in the office of the civil department of the chief secretary to the lord-lieutenant at Dublin in return for annuities of £100 a year to his widow and £200 a year to his son. These indexes were in constant request by Rowley Lascelles when engaged on his ''Liber Munerum Hiberniæ.'' At the sale of Sir William Betham's library a transcript of a portion of them fetched £155. Lodge's other manuscripts in the British Library are: *''Pedigrees and notices of Irish families, ... with numerous additions by Sir W. Betham,'' Add MSS 23693-23702. *''Historical and genealogical notes relating to the English, Irish, and Scotch nobility,'' Add MS 23709. *''Collections for a Baronage of Ireland, ... with additions by Sir W. Betham, and an alphabetical index,'' Add MS 23710. *''Notes and additions to 'The whole works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland, Egerton MSS 1783-1786.


References

*Webb, Alfred (1878)
"John Lodge"
''A Compendium of Irish Biography''. *


Further reading

*Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789)
''The Peerage of Ireland: or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume 5''
J. Moore, Dublin. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lodge, John 1774 deaths People from Bolton Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 18th-century English historians English archivists Year of birth unknown English male non-fiction writers 1692 births