| LC control no. | no 00077532 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Yale, Elihu, 1649-1721 |
| Located | Chennai (India) London (England) |
| Birth date | 16490405 |
| Death date | 17210708 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Affiliation | Yale University East India Company |
| Profession or occupation | Merchants Benefactors Governors |
| Found in | Elihu Yale, the American nabob of Queen Square, 1939: t.p. (Elihu Yale) LC in OCLC, Sep. 11, 2000 (hdg.: Yale, Elihu, 1649-1721; usage: Elihu Yale) PPPrHi files (Yale, Elihu, Esq., 1649-1721) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online, Mar. 6, 2014 (born Boston, Mass., 5 April 1649 but left North America permanently in 1652 and grew up in Britain; lived in India from 1671 working for the East India Company, eventually becoming governor of Fort St. George 1687-1692; also a private trader in precious stones during the East India period; returned to England in 1699; a benefactor of the Connecticut collegiate school at New Haven; the school eventually took on his name as Yale University; died in London 8 July 1721) |
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