Elihu Yale: Quick Facts

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Born	April 5, 1649 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died	July 8, 1721 (aged 72) • London • England

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Jeremiah Dummer

British-American colonial agent

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Andrew Mellon

American financier and politician

Portrait of John Hay Whitney wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking directly at the camera.

John Hay Whitney

American sportsman and businessman

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Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage

American philanthropist

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Anna M. Richardson Harkness

American philanthropist

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S.H. Kress

American businessman

Peabody, George

George Peabody

American merchant, financier, and philanthropist

Widener, Peter A.B.

Peter A.B. Widener

American businessman and philanthropist

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William Worrall Mayo

American physician

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Eleanor Belmont

American actress and philanthropist

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

English writer and artist

The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.

William Hogarth

English artist

Clementine Churchill

Clementine Churchill

English aristocrat and philanthropist

John Caius

John Caius

British physician

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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield

British industrialist

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Henry Thornton

British economist, banker, and philanthropist

Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon

John Fell

English educator, priest, and author

John Harvard

John Harvard

British minister

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

British missionary

Raikes, detail of an oil painting by George Romney; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Raikes

British philanthropist