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It was initially named Yale College after Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras (1687-1692), who had, in 1715 and 1721, gifted about £800 worth of textiles and books.

  • It was initially named Yale College after Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras (1687-1692), who had, in 1715 and 1721, gifted about £800 worth of textiles and books.
  • James Albert Yale was born on month day 1879, in birth place, Missouri.
  • David Yale.
  • In America today, Elihu Yale (1649–1721) is primarily remembered as the man who gave his name and a relatively substantial gift of money, books.
  • During a three-day conference, Yale researchers shared and grappled with initial discoveries about the university's entanglements with slavery.

    • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Yale, Elihu

    ​YALE, ELIHU (1648–1721), governor of Madras, was born in or near Boston, Massachusetts, on 5 April 1648. He was the second son of David Yale, a native of Denbighshire (d.

    14 Jan. 1690), who had sailed from England with his stepfather, Theophilus Eaton, to Newhaven, Connecticut, on the foundation of the colony there, but had migrated to Boston. The family returned to England in 1652 and settled in London.

    In 1672 Elihu went out to India in the service of the East India Company, and, after filling various subordinate positions, rose to be governor of the company's settlement at Fort St. George (Madras) in 1687 (see Talboys Wheeler, Madras in the Olden Time, i.

    LIFE OF OWEN GLYNDWR.

    173–258, chaps. viii. and ix.). In this capacity he is said to have acted at times in a high-handed manner, and to have hanged his groom, a man named Cross, ‘for riding two or three days' journey off to take the air.’ The story is found in Harris's ‘Complete