Thomas Skeffington-Lodge

Who was Thomas Skeffington-Lodge?

Thomas Cecil "Tom" Skeffington-Lodge was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1945 to 1950.

He was from a Yorkshire farming family which owned 2,000 acres. His mother, Winifred Skeffington, was a suffragette and his father, Thomas Lodge, from the famous Lodge family, American and British. In 1969, he successfully sued novelist Francis King for libel, claiming that he had been caricatured as a female character in King's novel A Domestic Animal, which was subsequently pulped.