The George Edward Lodge Trust www.georgeedwardlodgetrust.co.uk.
THE GEORGE EDWARD LODGE TRUST The George Edward Lodge Trust was set up in 2007 to further awareness of the life and work of this outstanding artist and naturalist. The Trust will build up a directory of artwork and artefacts of the artist with a view to making it available to those wishing to gain a greater understanding of him and his artwork and techniques. It will build an historical picture of falconry in the 19th and early 20th centuries based particularly upon the artwork, records and diaries of George Edward Lodge, but also expanding to incorporate other sources as these become available. George Edward Lodge 1860 – 1954
George Lodge was born at Horncastle in Lincolnshire. He was an accomplished taxidermist, beginning with his first subject, 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 in Surrey, which he named, appropriately, Hawk House. Lodge wrote his only book ‘Memoirs 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 Edward Lodge Trust has been recently established to encourage awareness in the life and work of George Lodge. For more information please contact: www.georgeedwardlodgetrust.co.uk
Trustees
Brian Bird, Chairman and Falconer Oliver Swann, Proprietor of Tryon Gallery, London Judith Magill, George Lodge Family Representative
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