Background
Royce, George Monroe was born on August 12, 1850 in Westmoreland Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel John Harrison and Elizabeth (Monroe) Royce.
Royce, George Monroe was born on August 12, 1850 in Westmoreland Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel John Harrison and Elizabeth (Monroe) Royce.
Student Bethany College, Virginia, 1874, Harvard, 1875-1877. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1878. Studied and traveled in Europe, 1880-1885.
Deacon, 1887, priest, 1888, Protestant Episcopal Church. In charge Saint Ambrose Church, New York, 1887, Trinity, Paris, France, 1888-1889, Saint Paul’s, Rome, Italy, 1889-1890. Rector Saint James’, Florence, Italy, 1890-1893.
Founder, 1897, and rector, 1897-1902, American Church, Munich.
Curate in sole charge Clanfield Hampshire, England, Saint Marys, London, 1904-1906. Rector New Windsor-on-Hudson, New New York
Retired. Founder American Circle in Nice (France), 1926.
Author: The Little Bugler, 1881. Two Englishmen, by an American, 1885.
The Decline of the American Pulpit, 1894. Americans in Europe, by One of Them, 1893.
The Passing of the American, 1912.
Notebook of an American Parson in England, 1918. Amye Robsart (five-act drama in blank verse). Base Born (five-act drama).
Married Eva Purdy Thomson, April.