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 (surname)
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The surname Yale is derived from the Welsh word "iâl", meaning "fertile ground". Iâl was the name of an important commote in Denbighshire, whose rulers, the princes of Powys Fadog, lords of Yale, were
Elihu Yale
…incorporated the college in 1650. It was they, along with Elihu's uncle and aunt, Thomas Yale Jr., and Anne Yale Jr., who brought the reconstituted Eaton/Yale family to America, while other members of the family stayed in England. Their estates in Wales were Plas-yn-Yale and Plas Grono, and Elihu's brother was London…
Arms of Chancellor David Yale (c. 1540–1626), first granted by Prince Llywelyn the Great, 13th century