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'''Sir Richard Lodge''' (20 June 1855 – 2 June 1936) was a British [[historian]].
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
Lodge matriculated at [[Balliol College, Oxford]], in 1874, graduating with a B.A. in 1877, and becoming a Fellow of [[Brasenose College]] in 1878.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{alox2|title=Lodge, Richard (2)}}</ref> 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.
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