The Oldest School in America, an Oration; And a Poem. At the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Boston Latin School, April 23, 1885

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".