Eleanor Constance Lodge

Eleanor Constance Lodge

Eleanor Constance Lodge, CBE, was born on 18 September 1869 at Hanley, Staffordshire. She was Vice-Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1890 to 1921 and then Principal of Westfield College, Hampstead, in the University of London from 1921 to 1931. 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. She died aged 66 on 19 March 1936 at Oxford and was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery [Death announcement in "The Times", 21 March 1936 ] .

Parents and siblings

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.

ources

*cite book
last = Lodge
first = Eleanor Constance (ed. Janet Spens)
year = 1938
title = Terms & Vacations.
location = Oxford
publisher = Oxford University Press

References

External links

* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp76172&rNo=0&role=sit Photographic portrait of Eleanor Constance Lodge at the National Portrait Gallery, London]


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