John Lodge (1692–1774)[1] was an English archivist and historian, best known for his work The Peerage of Ireland, a complete genealogical history of Irish peers.
He was educated at a school in Clapham, Yorkshire, under Mr. Ashe, and was admitted sub-sizar of St John's College, Cambridge on 26 June 1716.
In 1751 he was appointed deputy-keeper of the records in Bermingham Tower of Dublin Castle; in 1759 he became deputy-clerk and keeper of the rolls, and was subsequently deputy-registrar of the court of prerogative.
He married, first, Miss Hamilton, who claimed kinship with the Abercorn family; and, secondly, Edwarda Galland.
In 1770 Lodge published anonymously The Usage of Holding Parliaments and Preparing and Passing Bills of Supply in Ireland, stated from record, and in 1772, also without his name, a selection of state papers and historical tracts illustrating the political systems of the chief governors and government of Ireland during the reigns of Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, which he called Desiderata curiosa Hibernica.