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Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a British-American colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George, later Madras, and eventually rose to the Presidency of the ...
Pages in category "Benefactors of Yale University" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Berkeley College – named for George Berkeley (1685–1753), early benefactor of Yale. Branford College – named for Branford, Connecticut, the town in which Yale was founded. Davenport College – named for John Davenport, the founder of New Haven. Often called "D'port." Ezra Stiles College – named for Ezra Stiles, a president of Yale.
This was the David Yale initially considered to inherit the fortune of Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale College, but the man's whole estate, made from the diamond mines of Golconda, India, [30] went to the British branch instead, and was lost through corruption with no living descendants past his grandchildren.
Elihu's house. Elihu Club is housed in a three-story white clapboard house built between 1762 and 1776 at 175 Elm Street. [14] [15] This house is the oldest of all of Yale's secret society buildings, and purportedly one of the oldest original structures in the United States still in regular use.
Colonel William Kelsey Lanman Jr., (October 9, 1904 – March 26, 2001) was an American philanthropist and benefactor of Yale University. He served as an aviator in the United States Marine Corps from 1935 to 1955, and later took up real estate and investment management.
At the top of the center window appears the name of an early benefactor of Yale University, Elihu Yale, and around his name are the names of the first nine presidents of Yale College. Stained-glass windows flanking the nave commemorate benefactors and professors of Yale, many of whom were theologians.
He was the principal benefactor of the Yale Golf Course at Yale University and the William Miller Sperry Observatory at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. [6] He was a donor to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and also founded the Central Park Conservancy. [1] He published his memoirs in 2000. [7]