Editing Henry Cabot Lodge (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:Henry Cabot Lodge Harvard Class of 1871.png|thumb|left|Lodge's [[Harvard]] yearbook photo, 1871]]
Lodge was born in [[Beverly, Massachusetts]]. His father was John Ellerton Lodge of the [[Lodge family]]. His mother was Anna Cabot, a member of the [[Cabot family]],<ref name=HenryCabotLodgeMother>{{cite web|url=http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap044|title=Henry Cabot Lodge Photographs ca. 1860–1945: Guide to the Photograph Collection|publisher=[[Massachusetts Historical Society]] Library|access-date=July 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214002724/http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap044|archive-date=February 14, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> through whom he was a great-grandson of [[George Cabot]]. Lodge was a [[Boston Brahmin]]. He grew up on Boston's [[Beacon Hill, Boston|Beacon Hill]] and spent part of his childhood in [[Nahant, Massachusetts]], where he witnessed the 1860 kidnapping of a [[C. Allen Thorndike Rice|classmate]] and gave testimony leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnappers.<ref>{{cite magazine | url= http://archive.yankeemagazine.com/article/how-henry-cabot-lodge-earned-his-gold-watch | title= ''How Henry Cabot Lodge earned his gold watch'' by John Mason | magazine= Yankee Magazine | date= August 1965 | url-status= dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823210632/http://archive.yankeemagazine.com/article/how-henry-cabot-lodge-earned-his-gold-watch | archive-date= August 23, 2010 }}</ref> When the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] broke out in 1861, Lodge's father wanted to ride into battle at the head of a cavalry regiment he had personally put together, but his father missed the chance, possibly due to a bad knee from a riding injury, and in September 1862, Lodge's father suddenly died.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Evan |title=The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 |date=27 April 2010 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-08798-8 |pages=18–19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Yw4AQAAQBAJ&q=the+war+lovers:+roosevelt,+lodge,+hearst+and+the+rush+to+empire |language=en}}</ref> He was cousin to the American [[polymath]] [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Charles Peirce]].

In 1872, he graduated from [[Harvard College]], where he was a member of [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]], the [[Porcellian Club]], and the [[Hasty Pudding Club]]. In 1874, he graduated from [[Harvard Law School]], and was admitted to the bar in 1875, practicing at the Boston firm now known as [[Ropes & Gray]].<ref>Carl M. Brauer, ''Ropes & Gray 1865–1992,'' (Boston: Thomas Todd Company, 1991.)</ref>