RELIGIOUS FIGURE

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 British 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Harvard has received more than 38,433 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Harvard is the 940th most popular religious figure (down from 695th in 2019), the 931st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 590th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John Harvard ranks 940 out of 3,187. Before him are Lucifer of Cagliari, Antipope Innocent III, Wasil ibn Ata, Odilo of Cluny, Paolo Giovio, and Catherine of Vadstena. After him are Nicholas Kabasilas, Ahmad al-Badawi, Rose Kennedy, Leonardo Boff, Benedict of Aniane, and Peter Mogila.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1607, John Harvard ranks 5. Before him are Michiel de Ruyter, Madeleine de Scudéry, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Jan Lievens. After him are Infante Carlos of Spain, Zhu Yousong, Wenceslaus Hollar, Paul Gerhardt, Akile Hatun, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and Antoine Gombaud. Among people deceased in 1638, John Harvard ranks 9. Before him are Adriaen Brouwer, Ivan Gundulić, François Leclerc du Tremblay, Amakusa Shirō, Johannes Althusius, and Cyril Lucaris. After him are Cornelis van Haarlem, Peter Minuit, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Willem Blaeu, Hercules Seghers, and Paulus Moreelse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 931 out of 8,785. Before him are Terence Stamp (1938), John Dryden (1631), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Arthur Hailey (1920), Karl Jenkins (1944), and Samuel Pepys (1633). After him are Carol Reed (1906), Duncan Edwards (1936), Michael Atiyah (1929), Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Thomas Lipton (1848), and Orlando Bloom (1977).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United Kingdom

Among religious figures born in United Kingdom, John Harvard ranks 17. Before him are Thomas Wolsey (1473), Pope Adrian IV (1100), Willibrord (658), John Henry Newman (1801), William Tyndale (1494), and Charles Spurgeon (1834). After him are Frederick Fleet (1887), Mary Ann Nichols (1845), Henry (1100), Saint David (512), Reginald Pole (1500), and Stephen Harding (1059).

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