Thomas Soutter Lodge

Thomas Soutter Lodge was the yongest son and 12th of the 13 children of Robert John Lodge and Mary Ann Soutter. Born on 8 May.

He lived in The Grove, Highgate, London, in a house which was still standing in 1922 — divided into flats, of which Robert Donat owned one.

He attended Clifton College near Bristol and later travelled to the US and India (where his brother was in the Army).

Bought Strelly Grange in Busselton in 1903 (from Mr. Mills). In 1904 he set half a dozen Kookaburras free there. It had been called Strelly since before 1899.

Known as 'Bups' to his grandchildren.

He died in 1938 aged 85 and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

List of Old Cliftonians

Obituary
From The South-Western News, 4 March 1938: