List of Trustees of Lowell Institute
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The Trust, or Lowell Institute, as it came to be known, was founded in 1799 by Massachusetts expatriates Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814) and Thomas Barnard (1726-1806), wealthy and influential Americans who, having sided with the British during the Revolution, had taken up residence in London. The Institute had an unusual mode of governance: a single trustee who was empowered to appoint his successor and who was, in the language of Lowell's will, "always choose in preference to all others some male descendant of my grandfather, John Lowell, provided there be one who is competent to hold the office of trustee, and of the name of Lowell".
Having been extremely successful for more than 100 years, audiences for Lowell Institute began to wane, and newly appointed Trustee, Ralph Lowell, in co-operation with Harvard President James B. Conant founded the public radio station WBGH Boston in hopes of reaching larger audiences. WGBH Boston evolved under Ralph Lowell's, and Lowell's son John's, direction to become what it is today.
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[edit] Trustees
- John Lowell, Jr., (1814–1836)
- John Amory Lowell, (1936–1881)
- Augustus Lowell, (1881–1900)
- A. Lawrence Lowell, (1900–1943)
- Ralph Lowell, (1943–1978)
- John Lowell (businessman), (1978–present)
[edit] Portrait Gallery
 1799–1836 |
 1798–1881 |
 1856–1943 |
 1890–1978 |
