Lothrop Withington
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Lothrop Withington (January 31, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American genealogist, historian, and book editor who was killed in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
Early lifeEdit
Lothrop Withington was born on January 31, 1856,Template:Citation needed in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth (née Little) and Nathan Noyes Withington.<ref name="obit">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref>Template:Citation needed His father wrote for the Newburyport Herald. His grandfather was Leonard Withington, a pastor. Withington graduated from the Putnam Free School in 1872.<ref name="obit2">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref> As a schoolboy, he learned printing and worked for the Newburyport Herald and the United States Government Publishing Office in Washington, D.C.<ref name="obit2"/> At the age of 19, he went to France and attended lectures in the University of Paris.<ref name="obit"/>
CareerEdit
Following his time in France, he lived in London. In the late 1870s, he moved back to Newburyport and took up politics associated with the Greenback Party. In 1880, he returned to London. He took up history and genealogy. He wrote an edition of Holinshed and a work on the Elizabethan era.<ref name="obit2"/> Withington was a genealogist and had an office in the Journal Building in Boston.<ref name="obit"/> He was involved with research and editing of publications on certain aspects of the American Revolutionary War but best known was his genealogical research that included the publication of immigrant ships' passenger lists and the like.Template:Citation needed
Personal lifeEdit
On October 14, 1892, in London, he married Caroline Augusta Lloyd, a sister of Henry Demarest Lloyd. They had no children.<ref name="obit"/>Template:Citation needed He lived in Newburyport.<ref name="obit"/> In May 1915, he was returning to his work in the United Kingdom but lost his life on board the Template:RMS when it was attacked and sunk by German U-boat Template:SMU.<ref name="obit"/>Template:Citation needed
His sister was Anne Withington.<ref name="obit2"/> His nephews were Harvard football and crew men Lothrop Withington Jr. and Paul Withington.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref> His grandnephew (a brother's grandson) was Lothrop Withington Jr., the progenitor of goldfish swallowing.Template:Citation needed
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External linksEdit
- The Lusitania Resource - Mr. Lothrop Withington
- [1] - Blog entry regarding Lothrop Withington and his connection with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts