Background
Lodge was born into a farming family in Bolton, Lancashire, as the son of a farmer, Edmund Lodge.
Lodge was born into a farming family in Bolton, Lancashire, as the son of a farmer, Edmund Lodge.
He was educated at a school in Clapham, Yorkshire, under Mr. Ashe, and was admitted sub-sizar of Saint John"s College, Cambridge on 26 June 1716. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1719, and Master of Arts
In 1730, and went on to settle in Abbey Street, Dublin. In 1744, he published a Report of the Trial in Ejectment of Campbell Craig, from his own shorthand notes. In 1751, he was appointed deputy-keeper of the records in Bermingham Tower of Dublin Castle.
In 1759 he became deputy-clerk and keeper of the rolls, and was subsequently deputy-registrar of the court of prerogative.
He died at Bath, Somerset, on 22 February 1774. Some of John Lodge"s books, with marginal notes and corrections, came into the Armagh Library, which about 1867 acquired other of his papers by purchase from a great-grandson.