Bruce Lancaster

Background

Lancaster, Bruce was born on August 22, 1896 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Moody and Sarah Jenkins Hill Lancaster.

Education

Preparatory education, Sanford School, Redding Ridge Connecticut, 1913-1914. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1918.

Career

Administrative and sales work, 1919-1927. Foreign Service, unites states department of State, 1927-1933, as vice consul of career, Kobe, 1928-1930, Nagoya, August-September, 1930, Kobe, 1930-1932, Nagoya, June-July, 1932, Kobe, 1932-1933 (all Japan). Assistant secretary to board of Governors Society of New York Hospital, 1833-1837.

Trustee Beverly (Massachusetts) Public Library, since 1958.

Achievements

• Bruce Lancaster has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Battery A, 1st Massachusetts Field Artillery, on Mexican border, 1916. Fellow Company of Military Collectors and Historians. Member Cambridge Historical Society.

Club.

Clubs: Saint Botolph, Round Table (Boston).

Connections

Married Jessie Bancroft Payne, December 12, 1931.

Father:

Walter Moody

Mother:

Sarah Jenkins Hill Lancaster

Spouse:

Jessie Bancroft Payne