Elihu Yale

Elihu Yale was an English merchant, slavetrader and philanthropist, President of the Honourable East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.

In Boston, Massachusetts, a tablet to Yale was erected in 1927 at Scollay Square, near the site of Yales birth. Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

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