Elihu Yale
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Elihu Yale was a British colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became
Portrait by Enoch Seeman, 1717
Seaview of Fort St. George, the East India Company's headquarters in Madras, 1700s
The Government House at Fort St. George, seat of the Madras Presidency, where Yale would spend 29 years of his career
Warships attacking Fort St. George, Madras, along the Coromandel Coast. c. 1731 by Beorbe Lambert and Samuel Scott
Yale University
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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It
Elihu Yale
…mostly made by selling diamonds, and spent his time and wealth in philanthropy and art collecting. He was the primary benefactor of Yale College, now Yale University, which was named in his honor, following a donation of books, portraits, and textiles at the request of Rev. Cotton Mather, a Harvard University graduate…
Front view of "Yale-College" and the chapel, printed by Daniel Bowen in 1786
Coat of arms of the family of Elihu Yale, for whom the university was named in 1718
Connecticut Hall, the oldest building on the Yale campus, built between 1750 and 1753
The first diploma awarded by Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey in 1702