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John Harvard (26 November 1607 – 14 September 1638)  former English minister in America By Mark Carney “All England is an American shrine, full of rich records of the makers of their nation.”  1 None more so than glorious St Saviour’s – Southwark Cathedral – a few minutes south of the river from here. Its connection with Harvard makes it something of an American Mecca. For at St Saviour’s was baptised a Southwark butcher’s son who became benefactor to the university that would bear his name. John Harvard would doubtless be delighted with what has become of the 320 volumes and £800 he bequeathed to posterity: a college founded for the avoidance of leaving “an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust”. From that bequest sprung one of the world’s leading universities.  A community dedicated to its motto: Veritas – truth; the pursuit of truth in the sciences, humanities, even economics.  Truth to...