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Jan 19
Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 14
Which seat of learning is named after:
1 A canonised bishop?
2 A Glaswegian fur-trader?
3 A slave trader and corrupt Indian administrator?
4 An excommunicated Friend and telegraph pioneer?
5 A butcher’s son and Emmanuel graduate, who bequeathed £780?
6 A former pupil of the classical scholar Alexander Adam and friend of Walter Scott?
7 A Quaker abolitionist and successful wholesale grocer?
8 A sometime ferryman and later railway magnate?
9 A combatant in the Tobacco war?
10 A Baptist Ulsterman?
The one I know off the top of my head is that John Harvard’s father was a butcher.
Oh and Vanderbilt was a railway magnate iirc
Specifically, American universities.
3. The slave trader is Yale I think.
4. Is Cornell. Ezra Cornell was a telegraph pioneer and was disowned by quakers for marrying out.
7. The other Quaker is Brown. Trust me, I know about quakers. The Brown family were general traders in Providence RI where Brown Uni is.
Hmm I wonder whether St Ignatius of Loyola was a bishop?
Other US universities named after people I can think of:
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Stanford
McGill (NB Canadian maybe?)
Brandeis
any of these ring any relevant bells?