ElihuYale
Founded Yale University
Connection: He was the son of Welsh immigrant parents in Boston. He is buried in the churchyard of Wrexham Parish Church, not too many miles from the family seat ...
Hopkin Rees
Founder of Peking (Beijing) University, China, which grew out of the city's language school set up in 1869 by Missionary Hopkin Rees
Connection: Born in Cwmafan, Wales.
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Samuel Adams
Signatory of the American Declaration of Independence and co-founder of Harvard University.
Connection: Debatable: Appears to be a family connection with West Wales although there's nothing ...
... 1714, died Colomendy, 1782.
comment by:Californian Lived somewhere near Mold and in London. Was inspiration to Turner and Constable.
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