Lionel de Jersey Harvard

Lionel de Jersey Harvard
As a Harvard senior
Born(1893-06-03)3 June 1893
Lewisham, London[1]
Died30 March 1918(1918-03-30) (aged 24)
Arras, France
Cause of deathKilled in action
Resting placeBoisleux-au-Mont[1]
NationalityEnglish
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Known forThe first Harvard to attend Harvard
SpouseMay (Barker) Harvard
ChildrenJohn Peter de Jersey Harvard
Parent(s)Thomas Mawson Harvard
Maud de Jersey (Thompson) Harvard[1]
Relatives
John Eric de J. Harvard (brother, b. & d. 1892) [1]: 200 [2][better source needed]
Kenneth O'Gorman Harvard (brother)
Awards
  • Boylston Prize
  • Class poet
  • Baccalaureate Hymnist
Signature

Lionel de Jersey Harvard (3 June 1893 – 30 March 1918) was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College founder John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915. The first Harvard to attend Harvard, he died in the First World War less than three years later, leaving a wife and infant son.

After his death a fellow Army officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them." Harvard's Lionel Hall, and its Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship, are named in his honour.

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