Edmund Lodge (1756 - 1839)

Edmund Lodge

Edmund Lodge was a British officer, historian, heraldic writer and biographer.

Edmund Lodge was a historian and writer on heraldic subjects. His works included Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, and James I (3 vols., 1791), which consisted of excerpts from the Howard, Talbot, and Cecil Family manuscripts. He also wrote The Life of Sir Julius Caesar (1827). Lodge contributed to Portraits of Eminent Persons of Great Britain (1814). And his most important work on heraldry was Genealogy of the Existing British Peers (1832).