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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891)

Lowell, Robert Traill Spence. An American clergyman, educator, and author, brother of James Russell; born in Boston, Oct. 8, 1816; died on Sept. 18, 1891. He graduated from Harvard in 1833; was ordained a Protestant Episcopal minister in Bermuda in 1842; and held pastorates in Newfoundland, New Jersey, and New York. He became principal of St. Mark’s School, Southborough, MA, in 1869; and in 1873 professor of Latin in Union College, Schenectady, NY. His best-known work is the novel ‘The New Priest in Concepcion Bay’ (1864). He also wrote ‘Fresh Hearts, and Other Poems’ (1860); ‘Antony Brade’ (1874); a story of school life; ‘A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town’ (1878).