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.

2024年3月13日 · Often described as a connoisseur and collector of fine things and a philanthropist who generously donated to churches and charities, Elihu Yale is now in focus as a colonialist who plundered...

Elihu Yale was an English merchant, official of the East India Company, and benefactor of Yale University. Although born in Massachusetts, Yale was taken to England by his family at the age of three, and he never returned to America.

2021年10月15日 · For decades, an unsettling portrait of Yale University’s namesake and early benefactor, British American colonist Elihu Yale, carried a maddeningly incomplete description. The painting shows four...

2022年5月31日 · Elis is an informal, secondary nickname referencing Elihu Yale, a Welsh merchant for whom Yale College was named in 1718. What do Yale students call themselves? The Oxford English Dictionary definition is simply: “ A student or graduate of Yale University.” But “Yalie” may well have started out as an insult.

Elihu Yale was product of a rapidly changing and increasingly connected world. In contrast, the unnamed and collared enslaved child represented the growing population of enslaved people, whose commodified bodies and labor financed some men’s status and wealth.

2024年10月8日 · Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a prominent figure in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known primarily for his role in the British East India Company and as the benefactor of what would later become Yale University.

On August 11, Elihu Yale becomes acting president of Fort St. George. As the head of the East India Company’s operations, Yale is responsible for maintaining and growing the company’s commercial interests in the area by ensuring the passage of shipping up and down the Coromandel Coast.

A double portrait of Elihu and David Yale, once at the North family’s home of Glemham Hall, Suffolk, but now at Yale University, is probably the painting mentioned in a letter of 1719, which describes it as an intended gift from Yale to the university, but it was never sent.

2024年4月19日 · Explore genealogy for Elihu Yale born 1649 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut died 1721 London, England including ancestors + descendants + 2 photos + 4 genealogist comments + more in the free family tree community.