George Edward Lodge

http://www.georgeedwardlodgetrust.co.uk/

George Lodge was born at Horncastle in Lincolnshire. He was attracted to taxidermy and stuffed his first bird, an owl, at the age of twelve. As a student at the Lincoln School of Art he was awarded fourteen prizes for drawing and later became an expert wood engraver.

As a young man he travelled widely, visiting Ceylon, Japan and the West Indies. A great sportsman, he particularly enjoyed the annual visits to Scotland and to the salmon rivers of Norway, from which countries he gathered much material for his work on raptors. He was a keen falconer and spent the last part of his life in a house at Camberley which he named, appropriately, Hawk House.

Lodge wrote his only book ‘Memories of an Artist Naturalist’ at the age of eighty-five. He was, however, a prolific illustrator, best remembered for his superb illustrations for Dr. Bannerman’s twelve volumes of ‘The Birds of the British Isles’.

The George Lodge Trust has been recently established to encourage awareness in the life and work of George Edward Lodge. Please contact www.georgeedwardlodgetrust.co.uk.