Yale, Elihu

Yale, Elihu,

1649–1721, English merchant, an early benefactor of Yale Univ.Yale University,
at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was finally moved
..... Click the link for more information. , b. Boston. The family moved to England c.1652, and Yale was educated in London. He went to Madras (now Chennai) in the service of the British East India CompanyEast India Company, British,
1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies.
..... Click the link for more information. c.1670 and rose in the ranks of the company. He was appointed governor of Fort St. George at Madras in 1687. Because of scandals concerning his administration, he was removed in 1692 and returned to London in 1699. While in the East he had amassed a large fortune through private trade. In 1718, Cotton MatherMather, Cotton
, 1663–1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1678; M.A., 1681); son of Increase Mather and grandson of Richard Mather and of John Cotton.
..... Click the link for more information. wrote Yale suggesting that the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., might be named for him in return for financial support. Yale donated a parcel of goods, which when sold brought £562—the largest single gift to the college before 1837. The college, which had moved to New Haven, took the name of Yale.

Bibliography

See F. B. Dexter, A Selection from the Miscellaneous Historical Papers of Fifty Years (1918); biography by H. Bingham (1939, repr. 1968).

Yale, Elihu

(1649–1721) merchant, benefactor; born in Boston, Mass. He went with his father to London (1652) and became an agent in the East India Company (1671–99). He served in India and was accused of profiting at the expense of the company (1692). He was recalled in 1699. At the request of both Jeremiah Dummer and Cotton Mather, he gave books and other articles (1714, 1718) to the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., which was renamed Yale College in 1718.

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释义	Yale, Elihu Yale, Elihu, 1649–1721, English merchant, an early benefactor of Yale Univ.Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was finally moved ..... Click the link for more information. , b. Boston. The family moved to England c.1652, and Yale was educated in London. He went to Madras (now Chennai) in the service of the British East India CompanyEast India Company, British, 1600–1874, company chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original object of the group of merchants involved was to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies. ..... Click the link for more information. c.1670 and rose in the ranks of the company. He was appointed governor of Fort St. George at Madras in 1687. Because of scandals concerning his administration, he was removed in 1692 and returned to London in 1699. While in the East he had amassed a large fortune through private trade. In 1718, Cotton MatherMather, Cotton , 1663–1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1678; M.A., 1681); son of Increase Mather and grandson of Richard Mather and of John Cotton. ..... Click the link for more information. wrote Yale suggesting that the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., might be named for him in return for financial support. Yale donated a parcel of goods, which when sold brought £562—the largest single gift to the college before 1837. The college, which had moved to New Haven, took the name of Yale. Bibliography See F. B. Dexter, A Selection from the Miscellaneous Historical Papers of Fifty Years (1918); biography by H. Bingham (1939, repr. 1968). Yale, Elihu (1649–1721) merchant, benefactor; born in Boston, Mass. He went with his father to London (1652) and became an agent in the East India Company (1671–99). He served in India and was accused of profiting at the expense of the company (1692). He was recalled in 1699. At the request of both Jeremiah Dummer and Cotton Mather, he gave books and other articles (1714, 1718) to the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Conn., which was renamed Yale College in 1718.
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