Henry Lawrence Southwick

In addition to teaching at the college, he was a noted international performer of Shakespeare.

With his wife, Jessie Eldridge Southwick, he created and directed The Southwick Recital Series, popular with contemporary literary audiences of Boston and continuing as an Emerson College event today.

He taught dramatics at the college and later formed a Shakespearean company composed of himself and Emerson students.

In 1900, Henry and Jessie Southwick had joined with William H. Kenney to purchase the school from Charles Emerson.

They had three daughters: Ruth (1893) who also taught at Emerson College;[3] Mildred (Mrs. James E. Potter of Palm Springs, CA), (1895); and Jessie (1897).