Background
Alfred Lodge was born in 1854 at Penkhull, Staffordshire, one of nine children to Oliver Lodge (1826–1884) and Grace, née Heath (1826–1879).
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Alfred Lodge
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He attended Horncastle Grammar School, afterwards studying at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Career
In 1876 he became a fellow of Street John's College, Oxford, and in 1884 joined the Royal Indian Engineering College at Egham, there becoming a professor of pure mathematics, succeeding Joseph Wolstenholme in 1889. From 1904 until after the First World War he was a master at Charterhouse School. In 1897 Lodge became the first president of The Mathematical Association after its name change from The Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching.
Alfred Lodge died at Oxford on 1 December 1937.
He produced two sons, Charles and Christopher.
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