Eleanor Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge CBE (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[edit]
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.[1]
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.[1] She then studied in Paris, at the École des Chartes and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1898–1899.[1] In 1899, she started teaching History at LMH as a tutor, and was appointed as vice-principal in 1906.[1] 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 Westfield College, London. She was in fact appointed as principal of this college, in succession to Bertha Phillpotts, in 1921.[1]
She was the first woman recipient of a D.Litt. by the University of Oxford, in 1928, which was awarded for her work in the field of modern history.[1] She was honoured by a CBE in 1932.[1] She died aged 66 on 19 March 1936 in Windsor, Berkshire and was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery, near Oxford.[1][2]
Published works[edit]
- Life of the Black Prince, By Chandos Herald. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.[3] Editor, with Mildred K. Pope.
- Gascony under English Rule (London, 1926)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Frances Lannon, “Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1869–1936)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ Death announcement in The Times, 21 March 1936.
- ^ Chandos Herald, a. 1350-1380., Lodge, E. C., Pope, M. K. (Mildred Katharine). (1910). Life of the Black Prince. Oxford: Clarendon press.
Sources[edit]
- Janet Spens (1938). Eleanor Constance Lodge, Terms & Vacations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Frances Lannon, “Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1869–1936)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34582
External links[edit]
- Works by Eleanor Lodge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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- 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