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Sir Richard Lodge
1855–1936
A respected British historian of the late Victorian and early twentieth-century world, he wrote clear, wide-ranging works on European politics, diplomacy, and English history. His books are known for turning complicated periods into readable narratives without losing their scholarly care.
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The Close of the Middle Ages, 1272-1494, 3rd Ed.
by Sir Richard Lodge
About the author
Born in Staffordshire in 1855, Richard Lodge studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to build his career as a historian and teacher. He served at Brasenose College, became the first Professor of History at the University of Glasgow, and in 1894 was appointed to the newly founded chair of history at the University of Edinburgh.
Lodge wrote extensively on modern Europe, eighteenth-century diplomacy, and England after the Restoration. Among his best-known works are The Student's Modern Europe and later studies of British and European statecraft, books that helped generations of readers approach political history in a structured, accessible way.
He was knighted for his scholarly work and remained an important figure in British historical writing until his death in 1936. While many details of his life survive mainly in academic reference sources, the picture that emerges is of a careful, influential historian whose work was shaped by both university teaching and a deep interest in how European power and politics developed over time.