Oliver W F Lodge

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Oliver William Foster Lodge (born Newcastle-under-Lyme 1878, died 1955), was a poet and author; he was the eldest son of Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), the physicist.

O W F Lodge’s published works included What Art Is (1927); Six Englishmen (six tributes in verse, to Marlowe, Jonson, Shelley, Keats, Swinburne and William Morris); Summer Stories (1911), a collection of stories, prose poems and fables; Poems (210pp); Love's Wine Corked; a poem in twenty-four measures (1948); The Betrayer and other poems (1950); and The Things People Do, a collection of short stories published posthumously in 1966. He also wrote The Labyrinth: a tragedy in one act, based on Fair Rosamond by Thomas Miller (1847), which was first performed by The Pilgrim Players (which later became the Birmingham Repertory Company) in 1911 ^[1].

Lodge married twice and had four children: Oliver (1922- ) by his first marriage, to Winifred Atkinson; and Belinda (1933-1996), Tom (1936- ) and Colin (1944-2006) by his marriage, secondly, to Diana Uppington.

Some 200 letters written by O W F Lodge to his father between 1908-1940 are held in the University of Birmingham archives, part of the Papers of Sir Oliver Lodge. ^[2]