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John Harvard

1607 - 1638

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John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge". Harvard was born in Southwark, England, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1637 he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America, where he became a teaching elder and assistant preacher of the First Church in Charlestown. Harvard died of tuberculosis in 1638, leaving a large sum of money and his 400-volume scholar's library to the colony's new school, which the colony then voted to name in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Harvard is the 333rd most popular religious figure (up from 940th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 932nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John Harvard ranks 333 out of 3,187. Before him are Saint Boniface, Saint Pantaleon, Maya, Ephrem the Syrian, Thích Nhất Hạnh, and Pope Benedict III. After him are Pope Nicholas III, Hugues de Payens, Pope Gregory VI, Pope Anastasius I, Cyprian, and Ulfilas.

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Among people born in 1607, John Harvard ranks 1. After him are Michiel de Ruyter, Anna Maria van Schurman, Madeleine de Scudéry, Jan Lievens, Infante Carlos of Spain, Wenceslaus Hollar, Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, Paul Gerhardt, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Antoine Gombaud, and Akile Hatun. Among people deceased in 1638, John Harvard ranks 1. After him are Cornelius Jansen, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, Adriaen Brouwer, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Peter Minuit, Ivan Gundulić, Johannes Althusius, Amakusa Shirō, Willem Blaeu, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 222 out of 8,785. Before him are David Livingstone (1813), Saint Boniface (680), Catherine Howard (1523), Guy Fawkes (1570), Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831), and George Stephenson (1781). After him are W. H. Auden (1907), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Humphry Davy (1778), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Marie of Romania (1875), and Joseph Priestley (1733).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 3. Before him are Saint Patrick (385), and Saint Boniface (680). After him are Saint Ursula (400), Saint Walpurga (710), Alcuin (735), William Laud (1573), John Wesley (1703), Thomas Becket (1119), Pope Adrian IV (1100), John Knox (1514), and Edward the Confessor (1003).

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