Samuel Lodge (11 February 1829 – 5 September 1897) was the author of Scrivelsby, the Home of the Champions He was a headmaster of Horncastle Grammar School, Lincolnshire, rector for 30 years of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, and a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral.
Oliver Lodge (1764–1845) (latterly rector of Elsworth, Cambridgeshire), and was educated at Huntingdon Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford.
The Manor of Scrivelsby is a manor held by grand serjeanty, a form of tenure that requires the performance of a service rather than a money payment – in this case as the Queen's (or King's) Champions; members of the Dymoke family have held this office since the fourteenth century.
Their daughter Nora Margaret married Ernest Myers (1844–1921), the poet, Classicist & author.
[citation needed] Samuel Lodge died at Scrivelsby on 5 September 1897 aged 68 and was buried at St Benedict's churchyard, Horncastle.