Peabody, Endicott

(1857–1944) educator; born in Salem, Mass. Born into a patrician New England family, he was the founding headmaster of the elite Groton School in Massachusetts (1884–1940). Peabody decisively shaped the school, which offered a conventional curriculum, stressed athletics, and instilled into its students a strict moral code and sense of social responsibility.

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