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4 unusual facts about Theophilus Eaton


Hopkins Academy

Hopkins died in 1657 and in his will he set up a trust naming John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, John Cullick and William Goodwin as trustees.

Theophilus Eaton

In 1625 he remarried, this time to a widow, Anne Yale, who was the daughter of George Lloyd, the Bishop of Chester (some authorities say Anne Morton, the daughter of Bishop Thomas Morton of Chester).

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He was born at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England about 1590, to Rev. Richard Eaton and his wife, Elizabeth.

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David Yale, who married Ursula Knight in 1641, became the father of Elihu Yale, namesake of Yale College.



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