Thomas Arthur Lodge (1888–1967) was a
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architect
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.
He studied at the
Architectural Association
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in London until 1909, and was then articled to
Thomas Geoffry Lucas. After a time spent with a number of different firms, Lucas and
Henry Vaughan Lanchester
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took Lodge into
partnership
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in 1923. Lucas retired in 1930, and Lanchester died in 1953, leaving Lodge in charge of the firm. The practice, now named Lanchester & Lodge, continued after his death in 1967.
Amongst other works, Lodge designed the original
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
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, which opened in 1938. In 1929 he and Lucas designed the
art deco
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Parkinson Building for the