Elihu Yale ( April 5, 1649 – July 8, 1721 ) was an American merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company settlement at Madras and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honor.

As curate of Olney, Newton was partly sponsored by an evangelical philanthropist, the wealthy Christian merchant John Thornton, who supplemented his stipend of £ 60 a year with £ 200 a year " for hospitality and to help the poor ".

* 1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist ( d. 1776 )

Rehdiger, a wealthy Silesian merchant, banker, philanthropist, governor and patron of the principality of Breslau ( Wrocław ) who sponsored the map.

* 1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist ( d. 1721 )

Theodore's father, known in the family as " Thee ", was a New York City philanthropist, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son.

* September 5 – Jonas Hanway, English merchant, traveler, and philanthropist ( b. 1712 )

* October 11 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist ( b. 1636 )

* September 6 – John Morden, English merchant and philanthropist ( b. 1623 )

* March 18 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist ( d. 1776 )

For the businessman and philanthropist, see Quintin Hogg ( merchant )

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

* Joseph Wharton ( 1826 – 1909 ), prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist and philanthropist

Julien de Lallande Poydras, a merchant, planter, poet, statesman, banker, and philanthropist helped to establish the state's first public schools in Pointe Coupee Parish in the early 19th century.

* Amos Lawrence ( 1786 – 1852 ), merchant and philanthropist

* Samuel Appleton, merchant and philanthropist

* Stephen Girard ( 1750 – 1831 ), merchant, banker, philanthropist, and humanitarian.

* Frank Lusk Babbott ( 1854 – 1933 ), jute merchant, art patron / collector, philanthropist.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.

The emblem of Colby University, c. 1895 On August 9th, 1865, a Boston merchant, prominent Baptist philanthropist, and Maine native Gardner Colby, attended Waterville College's commencement dinner, and unbeknownst to anyone in attendance except college president James Tift Champlin, announced a matching $ 50, 000 donation that would allow the college to remain open.

* George Moore ( philanthropist ) ( 1806 – 1876 ), English merchant and philanthropist

However, in 1868, the Victorian merchant and philanthropist, George Moore, built, at his own expense, a new church, known as Christ Church, with an associated school in Chalton Street with an entrance in Ossulston Street.

The Milwaukee branch of the office was the Milwaukee Jewish Industrial Aid Society, headed by Adolph Walter Rich, Milwaukee merchant, manufacturer, and philanthropist.

Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet ( see Hogg Baronets ).

Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet, whose eldest son James McGarel-Hogg, 2nd Baronet was created Baron Magheramorne in 1887.

Finch is an outside sales representative for the paper merchant Wernham Hogg, in whose Slough office the show is set, and as such is frequently on the road.

He was the seventh of eight children born to Julius, a wool merchant, and Fanny Joachim, who were of Hungarian Jewish origin.

) The Farmers and Merchants Bank was the first incorporated bank in Los Angeles, founded in 1871 by John G Downey, the seventh governor of California and Isaias W. Hellman, a successful merchant, real estate speculator and banker, and brother of Hermann W. Hellman.

Wingate was born at Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire ( now Inverclyde ), the seventh son of Andrew Wingate, a textile merchant of Glasgow, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Turner of Dublin.

His son who did not know whether he wanted to be doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief.

He was the son of Halil Hoxha, a Bektashi Tosk cloth merchant who travelled widely across Europe and the United States of America, and Gjylihan ( Gjylo ) Hoxha.

Algarotti was born in Venice as the son of a rich merchant.

Francis was the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, and he lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy young man, even fighting as a soldier for Assisi.

He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman, and almost certainly born illegitimate.

Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen, Germany, the son of a wealthy Lutheran merchant, Carl Ebbinghaus.

Heinrich Abeken ( August 19, 1809, Osnabrück – August 8, 1872 ), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken.

Gutenberg was born in the German city of Mainz, the youngest son of the upper-class merchant Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden, and his second wife, Else Wyrich, who was the daughter of a shopkeeper.

Following this triumph the Maimonides family, hoping to increase their wealth, gave their savings to the youngest son David, a merchant.

His Protestant father, Captain Roger Casement of ( The King ’ s Own ) Regiment of Light Dragoons, was the son of a bankrupt Belfast shipping merchant ( Hugh Casement ), who later moved to Australia.

Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, in 1898, the eldest son of Léopold Magritte, who was a tailor and textile merchant, and Régina ( née Bertinchamps ), a milliner until her marriage.

Kandinsky was born in Moscow, the son of Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant.

Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

Arfwedson belonged to a wealthy bourgeois family, the son of the wholesale merchant and factory owner Jacob Arfwedson and his spouse, Anna Elisabeth Holtermann.

Beiderbecke's father, the son of German immigrants, was a well-to-do coal and lumber merchant, named after the Iron Chancellor of his native Germany.

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

His father became a rug merchant after emigrating to the United States, and expected that his son would go into the family business.

The Chambers biography relates that the legendary reason for Ní Mháille's seizure of Doona Castle in Ballycroy was because the MacMahons, who owned the castle, killed her lover, Hugh de Lacy, a young boy who was easily fifteen years younger than her, the shipwrecked son of a Wexford merchant Ní Mháille had rescued.

The legendary reason for Ní Mháille's seizure of Doona Castle in Ballycroy was because the MacMahons, who owned the castle, killed her lover, Hugh de Lacy, the shipwrecked son of a Wexford merchant Ní Mháille had rescued.

Hals was born in 1582 or 1583, in Antwerp as the son of the cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen ( c. 1542-1610 ) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.

Her father was Teackle Wallis Warfield, fifth and youngest son of Henry Mactier Warfield, a flour merchant described as " one of the best known and personally one of the most popular citizens of Baltimore " who ran for mayor in 1875.

In 1517, father and son began a project in Lucerne ( Luzern ), painting internal and external murals for the merchant Jakob von Hertenstein.

Thomas Cromwell was born around 1485 in Putney, Surrey, the son of Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith, fuller, and cloth merchant, and owner of both a hostelry and a brewery.

The son of Nicolas Valentin Haussmann, a merchant, was born in Paris and educated at the Collège Henri IV and subsequently studied law, attending concurrently the classes at the Paris conservatory of music, for he was a good musician.