Governor Sir Elihu Yale ( the initial benefactor of the world-renowned Yale University ) was instrumental in the development of the Hospital and gave it new premises within the Fort in 1690.
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Commenting for the Wall Street Journal, Roger Kimball pointed out that Yale's namesake, Elihu Yale, was a slave trader which begs the question of how Yale can maintain the name of the university against similar moral arguments.
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The Yale University Art Gallery owns a portrait of Elihu Yale in 1717 by Seeman and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, US, owns his rendering of Sir James Dashwood, described by the Grove Dictionary of Art as'Exceptionally lively '.
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However, even before the siege of Golconda came to an end and before Aurangazeb was free to direct his energies towards minor allies of the Sultan of Golconda, Gyfford was recalled and replaced by Elihu Yale as the President of Madras.
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In the next 25 years, it grew into a formal medical facility Governor Elihu Yale ( the benefactor of the world-renowned Yale University ) was instrumental in the development of the hospital and gave it new premises within the fort in 1690.
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On 6 October 1968, the 250th anniversary of the naming of Yale College for Elihu Yale, the classmates of Chester Bowles, then the American ambassador to India, donated money for lasting improvements to the church and erected a plaque to commemorate the occasion.
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Then, as the sun is setting and the bands playing and the alums mingling outside the old concrete horseshoe, he'll hug his parents, pull off the jersey with the 22 on the back for the last time, and head back to Elihu Yale's finishing school.
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Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads : " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name ."
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On 6 October 1968, the 250th anniversary of the naming of Yale College for Elihu Yale, the classmates of Chester Bowles, then the American ambassador to India and a graduate of Yale ( 1924 ), donated money for lasting improvements to the church and erected a plaque to commemorate the occasion.
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So it doesn't make sense and is inconsistent to list Elihu Yale as " American " ( or " British " )-he never grew up in America, he never lived there by his own choice ( he never returned to America ), he never worked there and he didn't die there . . . and as far as we know he didn't speak as an American.
