James Libby Tryon

James Libby Tryon (November 21, 1864 – December 21, 1958) was a peace advocate and the director of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was appointed deacon, 1896; priest, 1897, rector of All Saints' Church, Attleboro, Mass., 1897-1907; assistant secretary of the American Peace Society, 1907-11; secretary of the Massachusetts Peace Society, and was appointed director of the New England department of the American Peace Society, June, 1911.

He served as a member of the International Peace Congress held in Munich in 1907, in London, 1908, in Geneva, 1912, in The Hague, 1913.

He lectured on international arbitration at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1908 to 1911.

He undertook a lecture tour of Canadian clubs, universities and churches to promote the peace centennial during the spring of 1911.