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Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale
(5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was a
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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