Yale University...

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Yale, Elihu,
• 1649-1721, English merchant, b. Boston.
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• The family moved to England c.1652, and Yale was educated in
London.
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• He went to Madras in the service of the British East India
Company 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
Mather 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.

So, what a genius you have to be to figure who's money was it?

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