John Harvard
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John Harvard was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully rec
The John Harvard statue (1884) at Harvard University
Harvard House in Stratford-upon-Avon, the childhood home of John Harvard's mother Katherine Rogers
Emmanuel College window (1884) depicting John Harvard on left
Tablet, Emmanuel College
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the colle
John Harvard
…to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge". Harvard was born in Southwark, England, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1637 he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony – one of the Thirteen Colonies of British America – where he became a teaching elder and assistant…
Front Court, Emmanuel College
A 1690 illustration of Emmanuel by David Loggan
College sports grounds
The chapel looking towards the altar