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, and his wife, Grace (née Heath) (1826–1879). His siblings included Sir
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist;
Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian and principal of
Westfield College, London; and
Alfred Lodge (1854–1937), mathematician. Lodge was educated at
Christ's Hospital,
Newgate from 1865 to 1874. He matriculated at
Balliol College, Oxford, in 1874, graduating with a B.A. in 1877, and becoming a Fellow of
Brasenose College in 1878. He was Professor of History at the
University of Glasgow from 1894 to 1899, and then Professor of History at the
University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1925. During his time at Edinburgh, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university and was a founder of the
Edinburgh University Settlement charity, which established houses for students and fellows to live amongst the poor of the city. He was a fellow of the
Royal Historical Society and, in due course, became its president (1929–1933). He was knighted in 1917. Lodge died on 2 June 1936 aged 80; he was buried at
Holywell Cemetery,
Oxford. ==Publications==