Elihu Yale Politician

Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist, Governor of the 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.

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Elihu Yale
Birth dateApril 05, 1649
Birth place
Massachusetts Bay Colony , Boston
Date of deathJuly 08, 1721
Place of death
England , London

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