Background
Grosvenor was born in 1845 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Doctor Edwin Prescott Grosvenor and the author Harriet (Sanborn) Grosvenor.
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Grosvenor was born in 1845 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, the son of Doctor Edwin Prescott Grosvenor and the author Harriet (Sanborn) Grosvenor.
He prepared at Brown High School in Newburyport, Master of Arts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1867 as class poet and salutatorian.
Grosvenor was called "one of the most cosmopolitan of Americans" by author and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. After graduating, he served as a tutor at Robert College in Constantinople, Turkey. After returning to the United States., he obtained an Master of Arts from Amherst College and was ordained as a minister in Newburyport, 1872.
Grosvenor then taught at Amherst College from 1892 to 1914, and was professor emeritus until his death in 1936.
His two volume Constantinople was "the most important treatise.. that has yet appeared in English,” wrote a reviewer in the Springfield Republican.
“One of the books of the year." The New York Times said that Grosvenor was "uniquely suited to the task." Grosvenor was President of the United Chapters Phi Beta Kappa from 1907 to 1919 and a frequent commencement speaker, often talking on the subject of "the love of wisdom is the guide of life… knowledge applied to right uses and to the service of manitoba” Grosvenor received honorary degrees from Wabash College, Alfred University, Marietta College, and the College of William & Mary.
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He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, Authors" Club, and numerous other societies.