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| relatives = d. 1892) }} Kenneth O'Gorman Harvard (brother) | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = "Yours most sincerely, Lionel de J. Harvard" | signature_size = | footnotes = | box_width = }} Lionel de Jersey Harvard (3June 189330March 1918) was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College founder John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915. The first Harvard to attend Harvard, he died in World War I less than three years later, leaving a wife and infant son. After his death a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them." Harvard College's freshman dormitory Lionel Hall and the Lionel deJersey Harvard Scholarship were named in his honour. ==Background== In 1908 editor Mark A. De Wolfe Howe found an 1847 letter in which Harvard President Edward Everett makes reference to a "Reverend John Harvard" living at the time in Plymouth, England, calling him "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor... was a brother of our founder". Inquiries led to the identification of London businessman Thomas Mawson Harvard as a son of this nineteenth-century John Harvard (18191888), through whom he was descended from Thomas Harvard (1609–1637), brother of Harvard founder John Harvard (1607–1638), who had died childless. Thomas Mawson Harvard's elder son Lionel deJersey Harvard (called "Leo" by his family) was at the time attending St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School in Southwarkthe successor to St Saviour's Grammar School, which John Harvard had himself attended. Also like John Harvard, many in Lionel's line had attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge and become ministers. On his leaving St Olave's, however, the family's finances ruled out any ambition to attend Emmanuel himself, and so he took employment with a firm of marine insurance brokers. In 1910 a group of Harvard alumni offered to underwrite Lionel's attendance at Harvard; Harvard itself waived the usual tuition of $150 per year. He failed his first attempt at the entrance exam, but after a year of refresher study he qualified, and "set out for Cambridge, Massachusetts in lieu of Cambridge, England", as his friend John Paulding Brown put it later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lionel de Jersey Harvard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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