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]
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Publications
- ‘A Song of Working Men’, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1897
- ‘Summer Stories’, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1911
- ‘The Labyrinth: a tragedy in one act’, David Nutt, 1911
- ‘The End of an Age’, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1912
- ‘Poems’, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1915
- ‘Six Englishmen’, Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1915
- ‘Love in the Mist’, E F Millard, Painswick, 1921
- 'What Art Is', Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927
- 'Love's Wine Corked; a poem in twenty-four measures’, Gloucester, 1948
- 'The Betrayer and other poems’, Gloucester, 1950
- ‘The Things People Do’, published privately, London, 1966
