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JOHN LORD (1810-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 992 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:LORD (1810-1894)  , See also:American See also:historical writer and lecturer, was See also:born in See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire, on the 27th of See also:December 181o . He was the See also:nephew of Nathan See also:Lord (1792–187o), See also:president of See also:Dartmouth See also:College from 1828 to 1863 . He graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1837 . His course at the Seminary was interrupted by a See also:period of teaching—at See also:Windham, See also:Connecticut (1834), and at See also:Norwich (1834–1835)—and by a tour in 1836 through New See also:York and See also:Ohio, in which he lectured on the dark ages . He was See also:agent and lecturer for the American See also:Peace Society (1837-1839), and for a brief See also:time was a Congregational pastor in turn at New Marlboro and See also:West See also:Stockbridge, See also:Massachusetts, and at See also:Utica, New York . About 184o he became a professional lecturer on See also:history . He lectured extensively for fifty years, especially in the See also:United States and See also:Great See also:Britain, and introduced, with success, the See also:mid-See also: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 See also:City of New York . From 1854 he made his See also:home in See also:Stamford, Connecticut, where he died on the 15th of December 1894 . His See also:works include, besides several school and college histories, The Old See also:Roman States and Empires (1869); Two See also:German Giants: See also:Frederick the Great and See also:Bismarck (1885); and See also:Beacon See also:Lights of History (8 vols., 1884–1896), his See also:chief contribution to historical literature . See The See also:Life of See also:John Lord (1896) by Rev .

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Alexander S . Twombley, D . D . (in " Beacon Lights of History "), which is based chiefly upon Lord's Reminiscences of Fifty Years in the Lecture See also:Field .

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