Introduction

Biography

Robert was the son of Ro­bert Wa­ter­ston and Heph­z­ibah Lord, and hus­band of An­na Ca­bot Low­ell Quin­cy.

He stu­died theo­lo­gy at Cam­bridge, and for five years had charge of a Sun­day school for sea­men’s child­ren. He was as­so­ci­at­ed for se­ver­al years with the Pitts Street Uni­ta­ri­an Cha­pel, Bos­ton; and then pas­tor for se­ven years of the Uni­ta­ri­an Church of the Sav­iour in Bos­ton.

Much of his time was given to li­te­ra­ture, and a long list of his pa­pers of va­ri­ous kinds is giv­en in Put­nam’s Singe­rs and Songs of the Li­ber­al Faith, 1874. He al­so in­ter­est­ed him­self in edu­ca­tion­al mat­ters.

Works

He con­trib­ut­ed one hymn to the Am­er­ican Uni­ta­ri­an Che­shire Pas­tor­al As­so­cia­tion Chris­tian Hymns, 1844; to his own po­pu­lar Sup­ple­ment to Green­wood’s Psalms and Hymns, 1845; and oth­ers to va­ri­ous works.