Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625

found: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. The workes of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, both morrall and naturall, 1614:t.p. (translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke) added engraved t.p. (T. Lodge D. of Phis.) dedication, preliminary page 7, leaf [a]4 recto (Thomas Lodge Doctor Medicus) preliminary page 11, leaf [a]6 recto (dedication signed: Tho. Lodg. D.M.P.)

found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 3 February 2016(Lodge, Thomas (1558-1625), author and physician; born in London; Trinity College, Oxford BA in 1577; in 1578, Lodge entered Lincoln's Inn; there is no evidence that he ever practised law; first entered print in 1579; between 1579 and 1589, wrote an epitaph, a pamphlet in defense of poetry, music, and plays, an attack on usurers, a pastoral romance, verse satire, and plays; Lodge's position in the canon of English literature rests on the works published after 1589, particularly on his poetry and his narrative fictions; medical degree from the University of Avignon in 1598, recognized by University of Oxford in 1602; practiced medicine 1598-1610, at times in London and at times in the Low Countries and France; resumed permanent English residence; in 1610, admitted to the College of Physicians; continued to write as well as practice medicine; his later literary reputation rests on two monumental translations, The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus (first published 1602) and The Workes both Morall and Naturall of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (first edition 1614); died early in the autumn of 1625, intestate)

found: Wikipedia, 4 February 2016(Thomas Lodge (c.1558-September 1625); an English physician and author during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; born about 1558 in west Ham; while practising medicine in London lived first in Warwick Lane, afterwards in Lambert Hill, and finally in Old Fish Street in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen; died in Old Fish Street in 1625)