Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936)

Eleanor Constance Lodge was the daughter of a businessman and was educated at home in Staffordshire and then at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She studied in Paris before returning to Oxford, where she obtained a position as librarian. She became a history tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and was appointed vice-principal (1890-1921). During World War I, she became the first woman to conduct lectures for Oxford University. She was then appointed principal of Westfield College, Hampstead, attached to the University of London, a post she retained until her retirement. Eleanor Lodge never married. Her historical articles were published in the English Historical Review and the Cambridge Medieval History. Her other published works included the Estates of Saint Andre of Bordeaux (1912), Gascony under English Rule (1926). She was the first woman recipient of a D.Litt by the University of Oxford, in 1928, which was awarded for her work in the field of modern history. The Eleanor Lodge Trust was set up after her death in 1936. Her autobiography Terms and Vacations was published posthumously in 1938, and is held in the College Archives.