Pauline Fowle Durant, and her husband, Boston lawyer and lay preacher Henry Fowle Durant, founded the college in 1870 ; the first students enrolled in 1875.

Wellesley College was founded by Pauline and Henry Fowle Durant, and its charter was signed on March 17, 1870 by Massachusetts Governor William Claflin.

* Henry Fowle Durant ( 1822 – 1881 ), American lawyer and philanthropist

Whiting was appointed by Wellesley College president Henry Fowle Durant, one year after the College's 1875 opening, as its first professor of physics.

Hunnewell was a friend and neighbor of Henry Fowle Durant ( 1822-1881 ), who founded Wellesley College on Lake Waban directly across from Hunnewell's estate.

Meanwhile, Congregational minister Henry Durant, an alumnus of Yale, had established the private Contra Costa Academy, on June 20, 1853 in Oakland, California.

* Henry Durant ( 1803 – 1875 ), Congregational clergyman, first president of College of California, two-term mayor of Oakland, California

Opened in 1976, it is named for a book about Durant, Queen of the Three Valleys by Henry McCreary, which references the city's location in the middle of the Red, Blue, and Washita River valleys.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Durant was the grandson of Michigan governor Henry H. Crapo.

Both Durant and rival Henry Ford foresaw the automobile becoming a mass market item.

He is distantly related to Henry Howland Crapo, who served as Governor of Michigan from 1865 to 1869, and William Crapo Durant, Henry's grandson, who founded General Motors.

* Henry Durant ( 1802 – 1875 ), first president of the University of California

* Henry Bickersteth Durant ( 1871 – 1932 ), Bishop of Lahore ( 1913-32 )

At the New York Motor Show in January 1915, William C. Durant the head of Chevrolet ( and founder of GM ), launched the Chevrolet Four-Ninety, a stripped down version of the Series-H, to compete with Henry Ford's Model T, and went into production in June.

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1947 – Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company ( b. 1863 )

It is said that the estate's owner, Henry Bradford Endicott ( also founder of the Endicott Johnson Corporation ) took the burning of the homestead as a divine command to rebuild ( which he did ).

Henry Ford ( July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947 ) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

As the first Saxon ruler of Germany, Henry was the founder of the Ottonian dynasty of German rulers.

Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's daughter.

* Henry Ford, businessman and founder of the Ford Foundation.

* 1857 – Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library ( d. 1930 )

* 1837 – Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company ( d. 1899 )

The Kuomintang founder Sun Yat-sen, was heavily influenced by the economic ideas of Henry George, who believed that the rents extracted from natural monopolies or the usage of land belonged to the public.

In 1863, Agassiz's daughter Ida married Henry Lee Higginson, later to be founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and benefactor to Harvard University and other schools.

* 1828 – Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and social activist, founder of the Red Cross, Nobel laureate ( d. 1910 )

* 1819 – Henry Tate, sugar magnate of Tate & Lyle and founder of the Tate Gallery ( d. 1899 )

Today, the founder of the club is regarded as James Henry Gardiner who served the club diligently both on the field and off the field until his death in 1921.

Although never Emperor, Henry I the Fowler, Duke of Saxony, was arguably the founder of this imperial dynasty, since his election as German king in 919 made it possible for his son, Otto the Great to take on the imperium.

* 7-Carl F. H. Henry, 90, American Evangelical theologian and founder of Christianity Today magazine.

Henry VII of England | King Henry VII, the founder of the royal house of Tudor

The statue of the college's founder Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII presiding over the Great Gate

A statue of the college founder, Henry VIII, stands in a niche above the doorway.

Over the next two years, Morris and party founder Henry Hyndman worked together as the best-known leaders of the fledgling organisation.

Henry VII of England | King Henry VII, ( 1457 – 1509 ), the founder of the royal house of Tudor dynasty | Tudor

* Henry VII of England, English King and founder the Tudor dynasty ( 1457 – 1509 ).

* July 15 – Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, diplomat ( b. 1804 )

Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother Henry Wellesley and later-in one of the period's more celebrated scandals-married Wellesley's ex-wife.

In 1849 Henry Wellesley, principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, published his Anthologia Polyglotta, a collection of the translations and imitations in all languages, with the original text.

This was his last service in the Peninsular War, because his liaison with Lady Charlotte, the wife of Henry Wellesley, afterwards Lord Cowley, made it impossible subsequently for him to serve with Wellington, Wellesley's brother.

The same year, he married secondly to Lady Charlotte Cadogan ( born 12 July 1781 ), former wife of Lord Henry Wellesley and daughter of Charles Sloane Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan and Mary Churchill.

From the Middle Ages the Parliamentary Borough of Newport had two seats in the House of Commons, and between 1807 and 1811 they were held by two future Prime Ministers: Arthur Wellesley, later to become the Duke of Wellington ( who also found himself elected to two other seats at the same time ), and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston who would go on to become one of the United Kingdom's most notable Prime Ministers.

From left to right: The King, Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk | Earl of Surrey, Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington | Marquess of Douro, James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury | Viscount Cranborne, George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden | Earl of Brecnock, Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey | Earl of Uxbridge, George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley | Earl of Rocksavage, George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings | Earl of Rawdon, Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury | Viscount Ingestre and Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham | Lord Francis Conyngham.

Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington ( Apsley House, 5 April 1846 – 8 June 1900, Strathfieldsaye ) was the son of Lord Charles Wellesley and grandson of the 1st Duke of Wellington.

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* Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley ( 1773 – 1847 ), Irish diplomat

* Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington ( 1846 – 1900 ), British soldier and politician

* Henry Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington ( 1912 – 1943 ), British soldier

Lord John Hay took a pair, later called Schloff and Hytien, and gave them to his sister, the Duchess of Wellington, wife of Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington.

The third son was Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 ( see Duke of Wellington ), while the fifth was the diplomat Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley ( see Earl Cowley ).