Background
Motley, John Lothrop was born on April 15, 1814 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Anna (Lothrop) Motley.
Motley, John Lothrop was born on April 15, 1814 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas and Anna (Lothrop) Motley.
Graduated from Harvard, 1831. Student of University Berlin and University Gottingen (Germany).
Member Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1849, Chairman of Commission on education. Secretary legation at Saint St. Petersburg, 1841. United States minister to Austria, 1861-1867, to Great Britain, 1869.
Author: Morton’s Hope, 1839.
Merry Mount: A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony, 1849. The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 volumes, 1856.
The History of the United Netherlands, 1860. Also contributor articles to North America Review, Atlantic Monthly.
Member Massachusetts
Married Mary Benjamin, March 2, 1837, 4 children.