Drury Lacy Jr. | |
Office: | 3rd President of Davidson College |
Predecessor: | Samuel Williamson (academic) |
Successor: | John Lycan Kirkpatrick |
Birth Date: | August 5, 1802 |
Birth Place: | Ararat, Virginia |
Death Date: | August 1, 1884 |
Death Place: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
Education: | Washington College Hampden-Sydney College Union Theological Seminary |
Profession: | Pastor |
Term Start: | 1855 |
Term End: | 1860 |
Drury Lacy Jr. was the third president of Davidson College. A native of Virginia, he was a Presbyterian pastor at a church in New Bern, North Carolina and then in Raleigh, North Carolina before becoming president.[1]
As president, Davidson received a large financial commitment from a Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest private college in the entire South. Lacy left Davidson in 1860 and eventually became a chaplain in the Confederate States Army. After the war, he returned to the ministry until his death.[2]