See also: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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
.
See also: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 (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field
.
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