John Harvard (
November 26,
1607 –
September 14,
1638), despite having spent less than eighteen months of his life in England's
Massachusetts Bay Colony, is known in the United States as a
Massachusetts clergyman after whom
Harvard University is named. He was born and raised in
London, in the borough of
Southwark, the fourth of nine children, the son of Robert Harvard (1562-1625), a
butcher and
tavern owner, and his wife, Katherine Rogers (1584-1635), a native of
Stratford-on-Avon whose father, Thomas Rogers (1540-1611), is sometimes thought to have been an associate of
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). John Harvard was educated at St Saviour's Grammar School in Southwark, where his father Robert was a governor.
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