  thomas lodge (c.1558 â september 1625) was an english physician and author during the elizabethan and jacobean periods. ==biography== thomas lodge, born about 1558 in west ham, was the second son of sir thomas lodge, lord mayor of london, and his third wife anne (1528â1579), daughter henry luddington (died 1531) a grocer in london.{{efn|lodge had five brothers and two sisters of the whole blood: *william lodge, eldest son and heir, aged 30 on 8 july 1584, who on 14 october 1577 married mary blagrave, the daughter of thomas blagrave, master of the revels. *thomas lodge (baptized 23 may 1556, buried 4 june 1556), second son. *nicholas lodge (born before 1562), who became a ward of his brother-in-law, gamaliel woodford. *benedict lodge (baptized 18 april 1563), who became a ward of richard culverwell. *henry lodge baptized 14 april 1566 at st peter's cornhill, who became a ward of thomas waterhouse. *joan lodge (born 1555), who was the god-daughter of anthony hussey, and married, on 30 march 1573, gamaliel woodford, grocer and merchant of the staple, by whom she had a son, thomas woodford (born 13 january 1578), who held the lea
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