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LLAWRENCE, WILLIAM (30 May 1850, Boston–6 November 1941, Milton,Mass.) Education: B.A., Harvard College, 1871; studied at Andover TheologicalSeminary and the Philadelphia Divinity School, 1872–75; B.D., Episcopal TheologicalSchool, 1875. Career: Assistant, Grace Church, Lawrence, Mass., 1876–77; rector, Grace Church, Lawrence, Mass., 1877–83; professor of homiletics andpastoral care, Episcopal Theological School, 1884–88; vice-dean, EpiscopalTheological School, 1888–89; dean, Episcopal Theological School, 1889–93;bishop, diocese of Massachusetts, 1893–1927.William Lawrence, a bishop and seminary dean, was born in Boston in May1850. He was the son of Amos Adams Lawrence, an important New Englandmerchant and businessman, and Sarah Elizabeth Appleton. Raised in an environmentof wealth and privilege, William graduated from Harvard College in 1871and from the Episcopal Theological School (ETS) in Cambridge in 1875. He wasordained a deacon in June 1875 and a priest 12 months later. While at Harvard,he came under the influence of the great broad church leader Phillips Brooks,*who had recently become rector of Trinity Church in Boston. Brooks helpednurture in Lawrence a tolerant and liberal religious faith.Lawrence began his ministry in 1876 as the assistant to George Packard, therector of Grace Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts. A city north of Boston,Lawrence contained large numbers of working-class people, many of whom wereemployed in mills owned and operated by William Lawrence’s relatives. AlthoughLawrence confessed that he “knew only the point of view of the capitalist” whenhe began his work in 1876, over the next few months he was able to gain someknowledge of the everyday lives of the city’s millworkers. After Packard’s death,Lawrence was chosen to succeed him as rector. He remained in that position until1883. In January 1884, he became professor of homiletics and pastoral care at