Edwin Augustus Grosvenor (August 30, 1845 – September 15, 1936) was a historian, author, chairman of the history department at Amherst College, and president of the national organization of Phi Beta Kappa societies from 1907 to 1919.

[2] His son, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, was the first employee and longtime editor of National Geographic Magazine.

[3] He prepared at Brown High School in Newburyport, and graduated from Amherst College in 1867 as class poet and salutatorian.

His two volume Constantinople was "the most important treatise ... that has yet appeared in English," wrote a reviewer in the Springfield Republican.

"[6] Grosvenor was President of the United Chapters Phi Beta Kappa from 1907 to 1919 and a frequent commencement speaker, often talking on the subject of "the love of wisdom is the guide of life … knowledge applied to right uses and to the service of man.