George Cabot Lodge
George Cabot Lodge | |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | October 10, 1873
Died | August 21, 1909 Tuckernuck Island, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 35)
Education | Harvard University University of Paris |
Occupation | Poet |
Spouse |
Mathilda Frelinghuysen Davis
(m. 1900) |
Children | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. John Davis Lodge Helena Constance Lodge |
Parent(s) | Henry Cabot Lodge Anna Cabot Mills Davis |
Relatives | See Lodge family |
George Cabot "Bay" Lodge (October 10, 1873 – August 21, 1909)[1] was an American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Early life
Lodge was born in
His maternal grandparents were
Lodge began studies at Harvard College, and continued them in France, at the University of Paris, and Berlin into his mid-twenties. At Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard Polo Club.[4]
Career
In 1897, Lodge began work as a secretary to both his father and a U.S. Senate committee in
After his death, his collected poems and dramas, in two volumes, were published in 1911 by
Personal life
On August 19, 1900, he married Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis (1876–1960)
- 1960 United States Presidential Election.[11]
- John Davis Lodge (1903–1985),[12] an actor who became the governor of Connecticut.[13] He married the Italian actress Francesca Braggiotti.[14]
- Helena Constance Lodge (1905–1998),Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium and was later created Baron de Streel with Helena becoming the Baroness de Streel.[18]
Lodge died, aged 35, of heart failure while vacationing on Tuckernuck Island, near Nantucket, on August 21, 1909.[19] He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1] His widow died in 1960.[7]
Descendants
Through his eldest son Henry, he was posthumously the grandfather of two grandsons, George Cabot Lodge II (a professor at Harvard Business School,[20] who unsuccessfully ran against Ted Kennedy for the U.S. Senate)[21] and Henry S. Lodge.[10] Through his second son John, he was posthumously the grandfather of two granddaughters, Lily Lodge of Manhattan (co-founder of Actors Conservatory), and Beatrice Anna Cabot Lodge (wife of Antonio de Oyarzabal, who later became the Spanish Ambassador to the United States).[12][22]
Through his daughter Helena, Baroness de Streel, he was posthumously the grandfather of three, Jacqueline de Streel (who married a Belgian banker); Quentin de Streel (d. 1998),[23] and Elisabeth (née de Streel) de Wasseige.[24]
Legacy
A biography, The Life of George Cabot Lodge (1911), was written by his friend and confidant
References
- ^ a b "SENATOR LODGE'S SON DIES.; Heart Failure Due to Indigestion Proves Fatal to George Cabot Lodge" (PDF). The New York Times. 23 August 1909. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "LODGE, Henry Cabot - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Lodge, Henry Cabot (1878). Life and Letters of George Cabot. Little, Brown and Company. p. 5. Retrieved January 11, 2012. pp. 8, 323, 568
- ^ The constitution and by-laws of the Harvard Polo Club with the list of officers and members, 1883-1905
- ^ "" A New England Swinburne" Describes the Poet Best; POEMS AND DRAMAS OF GEORGE CABOT Lodge, Houghton Mifflin & Co. $2.50. - The New York Times" (PDF). The New York Times. 24 March 1912. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Lodge, George Cabot (1902). Poems (1899-1902). Cameron, Blake. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Mrs. George Lodge, Mother of Envoys" (PDF). The New York Times. 2 July 1960. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Lodge -- Davis" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 August 1900. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Dictionary of American Biography. Page 346. Scribner, 1959.
- ^ a b Pace, Eric (28 February 1985). "Henry Cabot Lodge, 82, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "LODGE, Henry Cabot, Jr. - Biographical Information". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ a b "John Davis Lodge, 82, Ex-Envoy and Connecticut Governor, Dies". The New York Times. 31 October 1985. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ The Political Graveyard accessed 2007-07-06
- ^ "Francesca Lodge, 95, a Patron of the Arts". The New York Times. Associated Press. 8 March 1998. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ISBN 9781440854439. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (2 August 1929). "MISS HELENA LODGE TO WED DIPLOMAT; Granddaughter of Late U.S. Senator to Marry Edouard de Streel of Belgium". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (15 September 1929). "HELENA LODGE WED TO EDOUARD DE STREEL; Prince de Ligne, Belgian Envoy, Is Best Man at Marriage of Late Senator's Granddaughter". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ISBN 9780674526860. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Volume XVIII, 1909-1910, page 337.
- ^ "George C. Lodge Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus". www.hbs.edu. Harvard Business School. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Kann, Peter R. (October 16, 1962). "George Cabot Lodge | Profile". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "Beatrice Lodge, '56 Debutante, To Wed in July; Daughter of Envoy to Spain Is Betrothed to Antonio de Oyarzabal" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 December 1960. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "QUENTIN DE STREEL, 64, EX-EASTON LIBRARY DIRECTOR". The Morning Call. April 23, 1998. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ISBN 9781351532150. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ Adams, Henry (1911). The Life of George Cabot Lodge. Houghton Mifflin. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "BIOGRAPHY IN YANKEE STYLE; George Cabot Lodge Described After the Fashion of" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 February 1912. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
External links
- Trumbull Stickney at Bartleby.com
- Works by George Cabot Lodge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Photographs at the Massachusetts Historical Society.