Career
Foreign Review John Lathrop"s namesake great-great grandfather, see Review John Lothropp. He served as minister of the Second Church, Boston, 1768-1816, when it was located in the North End—first on North Square, and after 1779, on Hanover Street. In 1776, during the British occupation of Boston, the Second Church was burnt for firewood by British soldiers.
Lathrop was considered a patriot.