George Edward Lodge
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George Edward Lodge (3 December 1860, Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire; died 5 February 1954[1]) was a British illustrator of birds.
His father, Samuel Lodge, was Canon of Lincoln Cathedral and he was the seventh son of a seventh son[1].
He was educated at home, then attended Lincoln School of Art[1] and studied and worked in London[citation needed] before moving to Camberley.
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His illustrations were used in such works as:
- Birds, Arthur Humble Evans, Cambridge Natural History, 1899
- 'Territory in Bird Life, Eliot Howard, John Murray, 1920
- Birds of the British Isles, David Armitage Bannerman Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh (12 vols) 1953-1963
- George Edward Lodge - Unpublished Bird Paintings C.A. Fleming (Michael Joseph) 1983 ISBN 0718122127
- A collection of 89 watercolour paintings, commissioned by the New Zealand Government in the early 1900s and intended as a replacement for Buller's Birds of New Zealand, with a foreword by Peter Scott. Had the original book been completed, the text was to have been by James Drummond, but the outbreak of World War I prevented its completion.
Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist Gurney and Jackson, 1946
- George Lodge - Artist Naturalist John Savory (Ed.), Croom Helm, 1986 ISBN 0-7099-3366-5
- Obituary, J. K. Stanford, in The Field, 25 February 1954