JOHN

See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• JOHN LORD (1810-1894)

LORD (1810-1894)  , American historical writer and lecturer, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 27th of December 181o . He was the nephew of Nathan Lord (1792–187o), president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863 . He graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837 . His course at the Seminary was interrupted by a period of teaching—at Windham, Connecticut (1834), and at Norwich (1834–1835)—and by a tour in 1836 through New York and 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 . About 184o he became a professional lecturer on history . He lectured extensively for fifty years, especially in the United States and 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 and Bismarck (1885); and Beacon Lights of History (8 vols., 1884–1896), his chief 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 .