Elihu Yale
✓ Source-basedfallingWelsh merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1649-1721)
Business ProfessionalsLived 1649 to 1721 · aged 72
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Elihu Yale was a British-American colonial administrator.
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Seaview of Fort St. George, the East India Company's headquarters in Madras, 1700s
The Government House at Fort St. George, seat of the Madras Presidency, where Yale would spend 29 years of his career
Map of the Mughal Empire in 1700, covering most of India, with Madras being surrounded at the bottom right in pink
Warships attacking Fort St. George, Madras, along the Coromandel Coast. c. 1731 by Beorbe Lambert and Samuel Scott
Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb on his war elephant during the Siege of Golconda. Unknown artist, 1750-1790
A fleet arriving at Fort St. David on the left, in Cuddalore. c. 1763 by Francis SwaineAwards 1
About this person
Category
Business Professionals
Type
Business Professional
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1649 to 1721 · aged 72
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