Background
His mother, Winifred Skeffington, was a suffragette and his father, Thomas Lodge, from the famous Lodge family, American and British.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
His mother, Winifred Skeffington, was a suffragette and his father, Thomas Lodge, from the famous Lodge family, American and British.
He was from a Yorkshire farming family which owned 2,000 acres. Skeffington-Lodge fought Bedford at the 1945 general election and unexpectedly defeated the Conservative incumbent Richard Wells, by just 288 votes. Despite never gaining election to Parliament again, Skeffington-Lodge fought a number of other elections across the country in the Labour cause.
At the 1951 general election he was beaten at York by just 921 votes.
He went on to fight Mid Bedfordshire in 1955, Grantham in 1959 and Brighton Pavilion in a 1969 by-election. In 1969, he successfully sued novelist Francis King for libel, claiming that he had been caricatured as a female character in King"s novel A Domestic Animal, which was subsequently pulped.
38th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Bedford from 1945 to 1950.