| 11. | It is named after Elihu Yale, best known for being the prime benefactor of Yale University.
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| 12. | In 1684, Madras was elevated to a Presidency once again and Elihu Yale appointed its first President.
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| 13. | In Saybrook Court are the arms of several American universities and of Elihu Yale and Edward Harkness.
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| 14. | David Yale, who married Ursula Knight in 1641, became the father of Elihu Yale, namesake of Yale College.
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| 15. | Outside the lounge above the main staircase hangs a posthumous portrait of Elihu Yale by Francis Edwin Elwell.
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| 16. | Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, after long protracted negotiations, acquired the fort and named it Fort Saint David after a Welsh Saint.
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| 17. | The original name, the Collegiate School, was changed in 1718 to honor a donor, Elihu Yale, an official with the East India Co.
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| 18. | In 1701, Pierpont secured the charter for The Collegiate School of Connecticut, which soon thereafter took the surname of its benefactor Elihu Yale.
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| 19. | A : Eli comes from Elihu Yale, a London merchant whose donation to Collegiate School in New Haven, Conn ., prompted its renaming to Yale.
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| 20. | Four years later, Elihu Yale, who had previously given some books at Dummer s behest, sent 300 books along with other goods from his estate in Wales.
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