John Harvard was an English minister in America, "a godly gentleman and a lover of learning", whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge.

On 14 September 1638, he died of tuberculosis and was buried at Charlestown's Phipps Street Burying Ground. In 1828, Harvard University alumni erected a granite monument to his memory there, his original stone having disappeared during the American Revolution.... More • http://en.wikipedia. ... ergyman%29 View • Books • Images • Videos • Search Related • Education • Enlightenment • Great Britain • Harvard University • Massachusetts • Ministers • November 26 • Sagittarius • Scholars • 17th Century • People