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LODGE, EDMUND, K. H. Clarenceux King of 

 Arms, F. S. A., son of the Rev. Edmund Lodge, 

 rector of Carshalton in the county of Surrey, was 

 born in Poland street, London, on the 13th of 

 June, 1756. He became a cornet in the King's 

 own regiment of dragoons in 1772 ; but disliking 

 the military profession, he remained only a short 

 time in the army. Having shown a taste for liter- 

 ature and antiquities, the situation of Blue Mantle 

 Pursuivant-lit- Arms was obtained for him on the 

 22nd Feb. 1782. He was promoted to be Lancas- 

 ter Herald on the 29th Oct. 1793, Norroy on the 

 llth June 1822, and Clarenceux on the 30th July 

 1838. Mr Lodge's talents first became known by 

 the publication of the Talbot, Howard, and Cecil 

 papers in the college of arms, which appeared in 

 three volumes, 4to. in 1791, entitled, "Illustra- 

 tions of British History;" and the ability with 

 which they were edited at once established his re- 

 putation. His next publications were the memoirs 

 attached to Chamberlaine's " Imitations of ori- 

 ginal drawings by Hans Holbein," which came out 

 in parts between 1792 and 1800. In 1810 he pub- 

 lished (without his name) " The Life of Sir Julius 

 Caesar, with memoirs of his family and descend- 

 ants," in quarto, with numerous portraits. But 

 the work upon which Mr Lodge's reputation will 

 principally rest are his well-known memoirs in the 

 " Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Bri- 

 tain," originally published in 1821 ; of which it is 

 no exaggeration to say, that they are a model of 

 biographical composition. Mr Lodge published no 

 other work ; and bis only additional writings (be- 

 sides a few unimportant articles) are the preface 

 to the second edition of the A ntiquarian Repertory, 

 the preface to Sir Hanbury Williams's Poems, and 

 reviews (we believe) of the Sadler Papers, His- 

 tory of London, Scott's edition of Swift, &c., in 

 the Quarterly Review. From motives of benevo- 

 lence he was induced to lend his name to an An- 

 nual Peerage; but we are informed that the merit 

 of those accurate volumes (for the work has been 

 frequently reprinted) belongs entirely to the ladies 

 whose names are affixed to the dedication. Through 

 the influence of a nobleman, no less distinguished 

 for his literary attainments than by his public ser- 

 vices, Mr Lodge was nominated a knight of the 

 order of the Guelphs of Hanover in 1832. The 

 honour was granted solely in consideration of his 

 talents, and without the slightest solicitation on 

 his part. He died, Jan. 16, 1839, aged eighty- 

 three. 



LONG, JOHN, a noted quack doctor of the pre- 

 sent century, was born at Newcastle, in the county 

 of Limerick, in the year 1798. He was the se- 

 cond son of John Long, in whom were united as 

 many callings as Dicky Gossip ever exercised ; for, 

 besides basket-making, which was his original oc- 

 cupation, he was steward, parish-clerk, harness- 

 maker, wire-worker, constructor of winnowing ma- 

 chines, and vender of every thing. His mother's 

 name was Anne St John. At an early age, John 

 emulated his father as a " Jack of all trades." In 

 addition to the hereditary occupation of basket- 

 making, he became a carpenter, a painter, and a 

 glazier. Before he was seventeen years of age, 

 however, he had thrown aside the chisel and the 

 diamond, and confined himself entirely to the pen- 

 cil. A lady of the name of Schuter, who lived in 

 Doneraile, was the first person who noticed his 

 early talents : she gave him little prints and draw- 

 ings to copy; and, whilst thus stimulating his ex- 



ertions, instructed him by her advice. Public in- 

 terest was soon excited in favour of so promising 

 a boy ; and a subscription was made by the Done- 

 raile family, and the gentry in the neighbourhood, 

 to send young Long to Dublin, where, towards the 

 end of 1816, he was placed, for two years, under 

 the care and instruction of an ornamental furniture 

 painter. He afterwards employed himself in giving 

 lessons as a drawing master, in Limerick, and also 

 at different places in the county of Cork. He 

 painted several still-life pieces; took some views, 

 among others one of Kicoleman castle, the resi- 

 dence of Spencer, and the place at which he wrote 

 " The Faerie Queen ;" and even attempted por- 

 traits. It was about this time, that he assumed 

 his maternal name of St John, as an addition and 

 improvement to his baptismal name of John. He 

 soon panted, however, for a wider and a nobler 

 field of action ; and in the year 1822, he set off for 

 London. His stock in trade consisted of some of 

 his own paintings, and a scripture piece, represent- 

 ing " The Woman taken in Adultery," which he 

 had restored from a state of sad mutilation, and on 

 which, with an enthusiasm pardonable in young 

 minds, he relied, as a kind of bank on which he 

 might draw for future subsistence. This picture 

 afterwards contributed to ornament Mr Long's 

 principal receiving room in Harley street. What 

 it was which induced the young artist to relinquish 

 the pencil, and to undertake the cure of consump- 

 tion, we have been unable to discover. In a let- 

 ter to a friend, written in the year 1826, he men- 

 tions having successfully treated a carriage-painter, 

 who was apparently in a decline. The result of 

 this first attempt encouraged him to proceed ; and 

 as, like all young practitioners, he prescribed gratis, 

 he had no want of patients. In the beginning of 

 1827, he states, in a letter from Bakewell, near 

 Bristol, that he had applied his, " discovery," as he 

 calls it, successfully, not only in cases of consump- 

 tion, but in rheumatism and other complaints. He 

 here began to receive fees ; and after realising 

 enough to clear his debts, he returned to London. 

 For a short time, Howland street, Fitzroy square, 

 was the place of Mr Long's residence ; but increas- 

 ing business gave increasing confidence; and, in 

 the beginning of 1828, he took possession of the 

 house, No. 41, Harley street, Cavendish square, 

 where he adopted the new course of receiving all 

 his patients ; having rooms handsomely fitted up 

 for the purpose, and a suitable establishment of 

 servants in attendance. Harley street was every 

 day thronged with carriages conveying rich and 

 noble patients to and from his residence. In the 

 year 1830, a young lady of the name of Cashin, 

 who had been one of Mr Long's patients, happen- 

 ing to die a few days after she was taken from un- 

 der his care, an inquest was held on the body, and 

 a verdict of "manslaughter" was found against Mr 

 Long. This verdict led to a prosecution. At the 

 trial, no fewer than sixty-three of his patients, 

 most of them persons of rank and opulence, ap- 

 peared as witnesses in support of Mr Long's prac- 

 tice. The jury, however, brought in a verdict of 

 guilty; upon which he was fined 250 and dis- 

 charged. In the subsequent year, Mr Long was 

 again tried, in consequence of the death of a Mrs 

 Lloyd, who had been under his care ; but was ac- 

 quitted. His own death, which took place on the 

 2d July, 1834, was attributed to a fall from his 

 horse several months before. Although he com- 

 plained of a pain in his side after the accident, he 



