JOHN LOTHROP (1814-1877).-Historian, _b._ at Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, was _ed._ at Harvard, where O.W. Holmes (_q.v._), afterwards his biographer, was a fellow-student. After graduating he went to Europe, studied at Goettingen and Berlin, and visited Italy. On his return he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1837