Artist, writer and traveller, noted for his atmospheric and meticulous depictions of birds. He was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. At Lincoln School of Art Lodge gained 14 prizes for drawing, later becoming an expert wood engraver. As a young man Lodge travelled to Ceylon, Japan, the West Indies and elsewhere. A great sportsman, he enjoyed annual trips to Scotland and the salmon rivers of Norway, gathering material for his work on birds of prey. Lodge himself flew falcons. He had stuffed his first bird, an owl, at the age of 12 and said that it was impossible to draw a bird’s appearance correctly without an intimate knowledge of its inside. Eventually Lodge built the Hawk House at Camberley, Surrey, where he settled. His plates for Beebe’s A Monograph of the Pheasants and his several hundred illustrations for Bannerman’s 12 volumes of The Birds of the British Isles are classics.