Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, 1892–1965

Abstract

dean of ancient metalwork and one of Sam's many friends and admirers, wrote from Edinburgh expressing his sorrow and adding, "Useful men like him are too few to lose even one of them." Now "useful" may not be the adjective that many of us would have selected, but the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's New International bear out Maryon as a precise and accurate man. The preferred meaning in the former is "having the qualities to bring about good or advantage" while one of the examples in the latter is "a useful man in his profession." Sam had in abundance the qualities to bring about good or advantage and certainly brought about good and advantage in and beyond his profession.