Lothrop Withington

Lothrop Withington was born on January 31, 1856,^{[citation needed]} in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth (née Little) and Nathan Noyes Withington.^{[1][citation needed]} His father wrote for the Newburyport Herald. His grandfather was Leonard Withington, a pastor. Withington graduated from the Putnam Free School in 1872.^[2] As a schoolboy, he learned printing and worked for the Newburyport Herald and the United States Government Publishing Office in Washington, D.C.^[2] At the age of 19, he went to France and attended lectures in the University of Paris.^[1]

Following his time in France, he lived in London. In the late 1870s, he moved back to Newburyport and took up politics associated with the Greenback Party. In 1880, he returned to London. He took up history and genealogy. He wrote an edition of Holinshed and a work on the Elizabethan era.^[2] Withington was a genealogist and had an office in the Journal Building in Boston.^[1] He was involved with research and editing of publications on certain aspects of the American Revolutionary War but best known was his genealogical research that included the publication of immigrant ships' passenger lists and the like.^{[citation needed]}