Thomas Lodge (publican)

Thomas Lodge (c. 1885)

Thomas Lodge was a publican in Breadalbane, who was falsely accused of abetting Ben Hall and his gang in 1865. Although acquitted, he was stripped of government contracts and bankrupted.[1] Lodge was born in Leicester, England in 1830 and died in Mandurama, NSW, in 1906.

  1. ^ J. McDonald, ‘Breadalbane, Ben Hall, and the Spurious Case Against Thomas Lodge’, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, vol. 41, 2020, pp. 23-44.