John Harvard blue plaque

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# The Southwark Boy Who Built a Legacy Standing outside the John Harvard Library on Borough High Street, you're standing in the very neighbourhood where a young man's trajectory was set in motion—this corner of Southwark, where Harvard was born in 1607 and baptized in the Cathedral, shaped the valu...

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John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High Street, Borough, SE1 1JA

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John Harvard 1607 - 1638 First Benefactor of Harvard University Born in Southwark, baptized in the Cathedral and educated in the parish's grammar school. Sailed to Massachusetts, 1637