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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 LORD (1810-1894)  ,
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American
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historical writer and lecturer, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 27th of December 181o . He was the
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nephew of Nathan Lord (1792–187o), president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863 . He graduated at Dartmouth in 1833, and at
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Andover Theological Seminary in 1837 . His course at the Seminary was interrupted by a period of teaching—at Windham,
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Connecticut (1834), and at Norwich (1834–1835)—and by a tour in 1836 through New York and
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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
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Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and at
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Utica, New York . About 184o he became a professional lecturer on
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history . He lectured extensively for fifty years, especially in the
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United States and
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Great Britain, and introduced, with success, the
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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
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works include, besides several school and college histories, The Old
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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
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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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