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Authorised form of nameLodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940); physicist
Dates1851 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthThe Views, Penkhull, Staffordshire, England
Date of birth12 June 1851
Place of deathNormanton House, Lake, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Date of death22/08/1940
Dates and placesBurial: Alongside his wife at St. Michael’s Church, Wilsford (Lake), Wiltshire. Their eldest son Oliver and eldest daughter Violet are buried at the same church.
Occupationphysicist
Research fieldTelegraphy
Wireless communication systems
Physics
ActivityEducation:
Local dame-school; Newport grammar school, Shropshire (1859-1863); Combs, Suffolk, with his uncle (1863-1865); University College, London. DSc
Career:
Professor of Physics, University College, Liverpool (1881-1900); Principal, University of Birmingham (1900-1919); retired and settled in Normantn House, near Lake, Wiltshire (1920); made Freeman of his native city, Stoke-on-Trent (1928).
Honours:
Kt 1902
Memberships:
Liverpool Physical Society (President 1889-1893)
Awards/Medals:
Albert Medal 1919
Faraday Medal 1932
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1887
Age at election36
ProposerDavid Edward Hughes
William Huggins
William Crookes
John Perry
Herbert McLeod
Thomas Edward Thorpe
Philip Henry Pye-Smith
Henry Edward Armstrong
William Edward Ayrton
Arnold William Reinold
John Hopkinson
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
George Howard Darwin
Robert Stawell Ball
George Francis Fitzgerald
George Johnstone Stoney
William Grylls Adams
William Thomson
George Carey Foster
Royal Society activityMedals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1898
RelationshipsParents: Oliver Lodge (1826–1884), railway clerk and later a merchant, and Grace Heath (1826–1879).
Siblings: Sir Richard Lodge (1855–1936); Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), both having extinguished academic careers.
Spouse: Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall (1851–1929) of Newcastle under Lyme, daughter of Alexander Marshall . who had trained as an artist at the Slade School (1877).
Children: Six sons and six daughters: Oliver William Foster (1878 - 1955); Francis Brodie (1880 - 1967); Alec (1881 - 1938); Lionel (1883 - 1948); Noel (1885 - 1962); Violet (1888 - 1924); Raymond (1889 - 1915); Honor (1891 - 1979); Lorna (1892 - 1987); Norah (1894 - 1990); Barbara (1896 - 1983); Rosalynde (1896 - 1983).
Published worksRCN 49874
RCN 18082
RCN 9600
RCN 50069
RCN 50070
RCN 18083
RCN 49872
RCN 50067
RCN 34319
RCN 49873
RCN 49874
RCN 50070
RCN 37516
RCN 50075
RCN 50077
RCN 13648
RCN 35148
RCN 50082
RCN 50277
RCN 50074
RCN 14957
RCN 50071
RCN R78415
RCN 50076
RCN 50083
RCN 21864
RCN 18550
RCN 49878
RCN 49879
RCN 50084
RCN 50078
RCN 14959
RCN 50278
RCN 45562
RCN 21776
RCN 50080
RCN 37515
RCN 14961
RCN 14962
RCN 50085
RCN 50079
RCN 50081
RCN 50604
RCN 50073
RCN 50072
RCN 14317
RCN 34318
RCN 39709
RCN 50603
RCN 26812
RCN 50086
RCN 34278
General contextHeavily involved with the development of radio, and holder of key patents for radio.
Notable for his defence of aether theory.
Identified electromagnetic radiation.
Pioneer of spiritualism who undertook pseudpscientific research into the topic of life after death and telepathy.
Active member of the Fabian Society and published two Fabian Tracts.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 551-574, plate, by R A Gregory and Allan Ferguson
References:
Sir Bernard Lovell, 'The Invention of Radio Communication', review of Peter Rowlands and J Patrick Wilson, eds, Oliver Lodge and the Invention of Radio in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 151-153
A D Boney, 'The Summer of 1914: Diary of a Botanist' in NR 1998 vol 52 pp 323-338
Brebis Bleaney, 'A Century of Physics in Oxford' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 333-343
Leslie Green, review of Peter Rowlands, Oliver Lodge and the Liverpool Physical Society in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 279-281
Vanity Fair 04 February 1904
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/39421635
Royal Society codeNA8070
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/6/1142Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons31 October 1892
MM/16/61Letter from Oliver Lodge, Birmingham, to RWF Harrison25 March 1904
EC/1887/12Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002791Lodge, Sir Oliver Josephnd
MM/18/15Letter from Oliver Lodge to Percy Allott26 March 1934
MS/373/1/28Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to [Thomas Edward] Thorpe 3 February 1898
MS/743/1/104Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 26 Waverley Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, to [John Hall] Gladstone3 January 1883
IM/002793Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph1921
MM/17/101Letter from Oliver Jospeh Lodge to Lord Rayleigh, Secretary, Royal Society2 June 1891
MM/14/168Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, Liverpool, to Sir Alfred Ewing 9 July 1890
NLB/27/18Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edgbaston, Birmingham17 June 1903
NLB/2/157Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster [Royal Society]6 February 1888
NLB/6/955Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs West, Newman & Company26 September 1892
NLB/1/741Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge25 November 1887
NLB/2/875Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society1 December 1888
NLB/2/735Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Lodge23 October 1888
NLB/2/933Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, [Royal Society]3 January 1889
NLB/6/203Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge24 March 1892
NLB/6/873Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge28 July 1892
NLB/6/191Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool22 March 1892
NLB/6/218Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society26 March 1892
NLB/6/232Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society30 March 1892
NLB/6/351Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge22 April 1892
NLB/6/367Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1892
NLB/7/361Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge28 January 1893
NLB/6/474Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society18 May 1892
NLB/7/1070Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society27 June 1893
NLB/6/860Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society25 July 1892
NLB/6/942Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings, 172 Strand23 September 1892
NLB/6/948Copy letter from Howard Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]23 September 1892
NLB/5/205Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to [John William Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, Secretary, Royal Society13 April 1891
NLB/5/211Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society15 April 1891
NLB/5/298Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool4 May 1891
NLB/5/460Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society15 June 1891
NLB/6/1200Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1892
NLB/5/515Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1891
NLB/8/32Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings4 July 1893
NLB/8/187Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society26 July 1893
NLB/10/77Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society24 September 1894
NLB/8/31Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings3 July 1893
NLB/7/928Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1893
NLB/7/1082Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings29 June 1893
NLB/8/362Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society9 October 1893
NLB/8/608Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society24 November 1893
NLB/10/548Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1894
NLB/17/633Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Oliver Joseph Lodge, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 2 Grove Park, Liverpool[29 November 1898]
NLB/9/532Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, 41 Kensington Park Gardens, W.1 June 1894
NLB/12/192Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society2 January 1896
NLB/13/756Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons20 November 1896
NLB/14/299Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings12 February 1897
NLB/13/759Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 November 1896
NLB/12/244Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society13 January 1896
RR/15/110Referee's report by Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Energy of rontgen & becquerel rays and the energy required to produce an ion in gases' by Professor Ernest Rutherford and R K McClung3 August 1900
NLB/14/201Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1897
NLB/14/345Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 February 1897
NLB/22/446Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society16 May 1901
RR/15/258Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'The measurement of ionic velocities' by Bertram Dillon Steele31 May 1901
NLB/14/799Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J D Sprunt, 20 Lyndhust Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.21 May 1897
NLB/14/878Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Oliver Joseph Lodge, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 June 1897
RR/16/295Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'The accurate measurement of ionic velocities' by R B Denison and Bertram Dillon SteeleNovember 1905
NLB/16/471Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society19 April 1898
NLB/15/36Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1897
NLB/17/465Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Horace A D Seymour, Royal Mint3 November 1898
NLB/15/123Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society30 June 1897
NLB/16/541Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1898
NLB/15/558Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1897
NLB/17/706Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society9 December 1898
NLB/16/624Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool9 May 1898
NLB/17/210Copy letter from A H White, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society1 September 1898
NLB/17/782Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1898
NLB/19/4Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, 2 Grove Parl, Liverpool1 June 1899
NLB/18/226Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [W D] Halliburton8 February 1899
NLB/22/557Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1901
NLB/18/700Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Halliburton, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1899
NLB/19/430Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society30 September 1899
NLB/18/623Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver J Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society12 April 1899
NLB/23/2/384Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society28 October 1903
NLB/20/152Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, [Fellow of the Royal Society]15 February 1900
MC/26/252Letter from Hubert Stunsbury, Sunnymede, Romsey, Hampshire, to The [Assistant Secretary], Royal Society4 March 1911
NLB/20/189Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 February 1900
NLB/21/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society29 November 1900
NLB/20/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Thomas Edward Thorpe, Sir Clements Markham, Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, and William Whitaker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 May 1900
NLB/20/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society][3 July 1900]
NLB/22/666Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, [Fellow of the Royal Society]24 June 1901
NLB/21/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Principal Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University, Birmingham17 December 1900
NLB/24/108Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society1 March 1902
NLB/23/1/584Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society7 December 1901
NLB/24/46Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 February 1902
NLB/23/1/777Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society20 January 1902
NLB/30/723Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society11 May 1905
NLB/26/415Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society16 March 1903
MS/928/6/2/18Letter from Oliver Lodge, Normanton House, Lake, near Salisbury, to Charles Vernon Boys20 March 1935
NLB/26/296Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1903
NLB/27/404Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society14 September 1903
NLB/26/529Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, Merlemont, Edgbaston, Birmingham7 April 1903
NLB/26/548Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society8 April 1903
NLB/39/556Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society5 February 1909
NLB/28/257Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Larmor, Secretary, Royal Society5 February 1904
NLB/30/506Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1905
NLB/29/815Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1904
NLB/31/720Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1905
MC/21/395Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison11 September 1906
MC/29/164Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Robert Harrison, Burlington House, London, W14 March 1914
NLB/35/114Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society, Mariemont, Edgbaston[17 April 1907]
NLB/40/373Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver Lodge FRS28 May 1909
MC/24/38Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, to Sir Archibald Geikie, President of the Royal Society, [Royal Society]25 October 1909
NLB/38/800Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1908
NLB/43/654Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society3 March 1911
MC/28/183Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]1 August 1913
NLB/46/355Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society12 July 1912
NLB/45/633Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver Lodge FRS18 April 1912
NLB/45/596Copy letter from Joseph Larmor to Sir O [Oliver] Lodge FRS2 April 1912
NLB/50/216Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society26 May 1914
NLB/48/584Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1913
MC/28/181Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to The Librarian, Royal Society28 January 1913
NLB/48/609Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society[6] August 1913
NLB/48/576Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1913
NLB/50/342Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society22 June 1914
NLB/52/14Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge FRS16 July 1915
NLB/51/820Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Oliver Lodge FRS6 July 1915
NLB/52/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS18 January 1916
NLB/52/579Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS21 January 1916
NLB/58/802Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS21 June 1920
MC/31/154Letter from Ellis [Thomas] Powell, The Financial News, 111 Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C, to The Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly29 February 1916
MS/928/2/114Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to Charles Vernon Boys19 July 1900
NLB/68/482Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Lodge, FRS16 July 1925
NLB/56/495Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS21 February 1919
MS/929/1/114Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, Terling Place, Witham, Essex, to James Mackenzie Davidson14 May 1904
MS/929/1/112Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, Mariemont, Eogbaston, to James Mackenzie Davidson14 February 1904
MS/929/1/113Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, Mariemont, Eogbaston, to James Mackenzie Davidson[1904]
RR/13/220Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'Experiments on the absence of mechanical connexion between ether and matter' by Oliver Joseph Lodge28 January 1897
MS/929/1/111Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, Mariemont, Eogbaston, to James Mackenzie Davidson13 February 1904
MS/929/1/108Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, The University of Birmigham, to James Mackenzie Davidson3 February 1904
MS/929/1/110Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, Mariemont, Eogbaston, to James Mackenzie Davidson13 February 1904
MS/929/1/109Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, The University of Birmigham, to James Mackenzie Davidson4 February 1904
MS/929/2/5Copy Letter from [James Mackenzie Davidson, 26 Park Crescent,] to Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS 16 May 1904
RR/11/217Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Ionic velocities' by W C D Whetham20 November 1892
RR/14/65Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Ionic velocities' by David Orme Masson16 January 1899
NLB/58/943Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS7 July 1920
RR/13/221Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'Experiments on the absence of mechanical connexion between ether and matter' by Oliver Joseph Lodge7 February 1897
NLB/60/256Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS; Normanton, New Sallisbury7 January 1921
RR/13/202Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Electrification of air, of vapour of water, and of other gases' by William Thomson, Magnus Maclean and Alexander Galt3 July 1897
NLB/60/340Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS21 January 1921
NLB/61/96Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS9 May 1921
RR/13/106Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications' by Ernest RutherfordJune 1896
RR/13/280Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Cathode rays and some analogous rays' by Silvanus Phillips Thompson29 May 1897
RR/14/195Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Electrical conductivity in gases traversed by cathode rays' by John Cunningham McLennannd [March 1900]
NLB/57/393Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS30 October 1919
RR/12/404Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'On the velocities of the ions' by William Cecil Dampier Whetham23 May 1895
IM/GA/Russell/002792Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph1922
RR/31/35Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'The use of the coherer to investigate adsorption films' by William George Palmer9 May 1924
RR/14/265Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper [attributed] 'The characteristic of nerve' by Augustus Desire Waller14 April 1899
NLB/65/489Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS6 November 1923
NLB/65/560Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS20 November 1923
NLB/67/872Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Lodge, FRS30 March 1925
NLB/69/454Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; Mrs. A. Watson, Southwold, Sheffield20 April 1923
NLB/71/552Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS6 July 1928
NLB/73/170Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to D. Covill, Esq., Wembley, Middlesex23 January 1931
NLB/67/724Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver Lodge, FRS20 February 1925
IM/002790Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph1999
MM/9/31Letter from Oliver Lodge, Normanston House Lake, Salisbury, to AW Porter7 November 1928
MM/9/30Letter from Oliver Lodge, Normanston House Lake, Salisbury, to AW Porter5 November 1928
MS/377/1/79Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, to [William Fletcher] Barrett4 July 1906
IM/002794Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph27 January 1936
NLB/5/265Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1891
NLB/7/1073Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings27 June 1893
NLB/8/882Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society16 January 1894
NLB/10/541Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1894
NLB/9/774Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society11 July 1894
NLB/12/263Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society17 January 1896
RR/15/117Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'The diffusion of ions produced in air by the action of a radio-active substance, ultra-violet light & point discharges' by John Sealy Edward TownsendJune 1900
NLB/15/601Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Leonard Blaikie, Secretary, National Physical LAboratory Committee, 32 Abingdon Street, Westminster, S.W.3 November 1897
NLB/17/158Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Oliver Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1898
NLB/23/1/395Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society5 November 1901
MC/24/41Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]12 June 1909
RR/10/264Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on two papers 'Relative amounts of voltaic energy of dissolved chemical compounds' and 'Relative amounts of voltaic energy of electrolytes' by George Gore17 December 1888
MS/929/1/107Letter from Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS, The University of Birmigham, to James Mackenzie Davidson12 June 1902
NLB/61/627Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, FRS23 September 1921
VF/24Portrait of Sir Oliver Lodge by Sir Leslie Ward14 February 1904
NLB/38/196Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society25 June 1908
NLB/40/483Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge FRS 14 June 1909
NLB/66/506Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 May 1924
NLB/52New Letter Book volume 52, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration9 July 1915-8 March 1916
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MDA/C/12/1/9Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society14 February 1895
MDA/C/12/1/6Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society12 February 1895
RR/15/162Referee's report by Oliver Lodge, on three papers 'The continuity of effect of light and electric radiation on matter', 'On the similarities between radiation and mechanical strains', and 'On the strain theory of photographic action' by Jagadis Chunder Bose4 June 1901
RR/11/184Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Aberration problems.—A discussion concerning the motion of the ether near the earth, and concerning the connexion between ether and gross matter; with some new experiments' by Oliver Joseph Lodge1892
AP/79/6Unpublished paper, 'The magnetic behaviour of iron at very high temperatures' by N W McLachlan1915
PP/18/1Paper, 'Experiments on the discharge of Leyden jars' by Oliver Joseph Lodge1891
RR/12/49Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Electrical interference Phenomena somewhat analogous to Newton’s rings, but exhibited by waves along wires' by Edwin Henry Barton11 March 1894
RR/12/174Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'A research into the elasticity of the living brain and the conditions governing the recovery of the brain after compression for short periods' by A G Levy17 July 1894
RR/15/18Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on two papers 'On the continuity of effect of electric radiation and light on matter, and on the molecular strain theory of photographic action', and 'On the similarities between the radiation and mechanical strain' by Jagadish Chunder Bose2 December 1900
MC/16/134Letter from Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to Michael Foster17 June 1894
MC/15/277Letter from [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, to Michael Foster24 May 1892
MC/14/272Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to [Herbert] Rix27 November 1887
MC/16/242Letter from [Oliver Joseph] Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to Michael Foster20 July 1895
MC/24/36Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]11 February 1909
MC/14/271Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to Herbert Rix, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society26 November 1887
MC/15/184Letter from Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]13 May 1891
NLB/17/452Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1898
MC/18/160Letter from Oliver Lodge, Clouds, Salisbury, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison10 April 1903
MC/18/161Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison29 May 1903
MC/18/158Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society14 March 1903
MC/18/156Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to the Secretary of the Royal Society24 February 1903
MC/18/157Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison7 March 1903
MC/18/159Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison2 April 1903
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
MC/24/37Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]15 February 1909
MC/24/35Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]9 February 1909
NLB/39/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society10 February 1909
NLB/39/615Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1909
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/26/143Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]6 March 1911
MC/26/253Letter from Hubert Stunsbury, Sunnymede, Romsey, Hampshire, to The [Assistant Secretary], Royal Society28 March 1911
MC/26/251Letter from Captain [Hubert] Stunsbury, Sunnymede, Romsey, Hampshire, to The [Assistant Secretary], Royal Society2 March 1911
MC/20/138Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison17 April 1905
MC/24Volume 24 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1909
MC/20/137Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society8 March 1905
NLB/30/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society11 March 1905
NLB/30/617Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society18 April 1905
MC/28/182Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]30 July 1913
NLB/47/424Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Oliver J [Joseph] Lodge FRS29 January 1913
MC/29/165Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Robert Harrison, Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, W16 March 1914
MC/29/163Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society12 March 1914
MC/29/167Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to the Officers of the Royal Society23 October 1914
MC/29/166Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to The Secretaries of the Royal Society1 May 1914
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/19/568Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison10 December 1904
MC/18Volume 18 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1903
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/30/117Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]15 July 1915
NLB/33/503Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Fellow of the Royal Society15 September 1906
MC/31/99Letter from Oliver Lodge, The University, Birmingham, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]17 January 1916
MC/31/100Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]7 March 1916
MC/31/101Letter from Oliver Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]13 December 1916
MC/39/73Letter from Oliver Lodge, Normanton House, Lake, Salisbury, to the Secretary of the Royal Society14 July 1925
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