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Eleanor Constance Lodge, National Portrait Gallery

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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Frances Lannon, “Lodge, Eleanor Constance (1869–1936)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  2. ^ Death announcement in The Times, 21 March 1936.
  3. ^ Chandos Herald, a. 1350-1380., Lodge, E. C., Pope, M. K. (Mildred Katharine). (1910). Life of the Black Prince. Oxford: Clarendon press.

Sources

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  • Janet Spens (1938). Eleanor Constance Lodge, Terms & Vacations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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