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LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LODGE, See also:EDMUND (1756-1839) , See also:English writer on See also:heraldry, was See also:born in See also:London on the 13th of See also:June 1756, son of Edmund Lodge, See also:rector of Carshalton, See also:Surrey. He held a See also:cornet's See also:commission in the See also:army, which he resigned in 1773. In 1782 he became Bluemantle See also:pursuivant-at-arms in the See also:College of Arms. He subsequently became See also:Lancaster See also:herald, Norroy See also:king-at-arms, Clarencieux king-at-arms, and, in 1832, See also:knight of the See also:order of the Guelphs of See also:Hanover. He died in London on the 16th of See also:January 1839. He wrote Illustrations of See also:British See also:History, See also:Biography and See also:Manners in the reigns of See also:Henry VIII., See also:Edward VI., See also:Mary, See also:Elizabeth and See also:James I .... (3 vols., 1791), consisting of selections from the See also:MSS. of the See also:Howard, See also:Talbot and See also:Cecil families preserved at the College of Arms; See also:Life of See also:Sir See also:Julius See also:Caesar ... (2nd ed., 1827). He contributed the See also:literary See also:matter to Portraits of Illustrious Personages of See also:Great See also:Britain (1814, &c.), an elaborate See also:work of which a popular edition is included in See also:Bohn's " Illustrated Library." His most important work on heraldry was The See also:Genealogy of the existing British See also:Peerage ... (1832; enlarged edition, 1859). In The See also:Annual Peerage and Baronetage (1827-1829), reissued after 1832 as Peerage of the British See also:Empire, and generally known as Lodge's Peerage, his See also:share did not go beyond the See also:title-See also:page. f See also:mass already in See also:place, and one being placed.

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