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  Elihu YALE

  British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor

  1649 - 1721
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  John HAWKINS

  English naval commander and administrator

  1532 - 1595
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  Thomas Law

  Reformer of British policy in India, where he served as collector of revenue for the East India Company

  1756 - 1834
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  Benjamin Thompson

  British physicist and inventor

  1753 - 1814
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  William Pepperrell

  Merchant and soldier in colonial Massachusetts

  1696 - 1759
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  Samuel Cunard

  British-Canadian shipping magnate

  1787 - 1865
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  Simon BRADSTREET

  Colonial magistrate, businessman, diplomat, and the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

  1603 - 1697
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  Thomas PITT

  British merchant involved in trade with India

  1653 - 1726