LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

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LORD, JOHN (1810-1894) , American historical writer and lecturer, was born in Portsmouth, New

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

, on the 27th of December 181o. He was the nephew of Nathan Lord (1792187o), president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and at Andover Theological

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

in 1837. His course at the

Seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

was interrupted by a period of teachingat Windham, Connecticut (1834), and at Norwich (18341835)and by a tour in 1836 through New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

and

Ohio

OHIO

, in which he lectured on the dark ages. He was agent and lecturer for the American Peace Society (1837-1839), and for a brief time was a Congregational pastor in turn at New Marlboro and West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and at Utica, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

. About 184o he became a professional lecturer on history. He lectured extensively for fifty years, especially in the United States and

Great

GREAT

Britain, and introduced, with success, the mid-day lecture. He was lecturer on history in Dartmouth from 1869 to 1876. He received, in 1864, the degree of LL.D. from the University of the City of New York. From 1854 he made his home in Stamford, Connecticut, where he died on the 15th of December 1894. His works include, besides several school and college histories, The Old Roman
States and Empires (1869); Two German Giants: Frederick the

Great

GREAT

and Bismarck (1885); and Beacon Lights of History
(8 vols., 18841896), his

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

contribution to historical
literature.
See The Life of John Lord (1896) by Rev. Alexander S. Twombley, D. D. (in " Beacon Lights of History "), which is based chiefly upon Lord's Reminiscences of Fifty Years in the Lecture Field.

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