Eleanor Constance Lodge
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Eleanor Constance Lodge, CBE
CBE
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, 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
Westfield College
Westfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...

, Hampstead
Hampstead
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, in the University of London
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 from 1921 to 1931. She was the first woman recipient of a D.Litt by the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
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, in 1928, which was awarded for her work in the field of modern history
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. She died aged 66 on 19 March 1936 at Oxford
Oxford
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 and was buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
Wolvercote Cemetery
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.

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.

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