Andrew Eliot

Andrew Eliot (1718-1778) was a prominent Boston Congregational minister of the New North Church (now St. Stephen's in the North End).[1] He graduated from Harvard University in 1737 and received his AM from the same institution in 1740. During the American Revolutionary War, he was one of the few ministers to remain in Boston during the siege.[2]

Eliot's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all named Andrew. He had five sons: Reverend Andrew Eliot was a minister in Fairfield, Connecticut, Josiah Eliot was said to have gone to Georgia, Samuel Eliot was a merchant and the father of William Greenleaf Eliot, Reverend John Eliot succeeded his father as pastor of New North Church and was one of the co-founders of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Dr. Ephraim Eliot studied medicine at Harvard University but became an apothecary and the first president of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.

He is the namesake of one of the main characters in fellow Harvard graduate Erich Segal's The Class.

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  1. ↑ Oasis document
  2. ↑ Bernard Bailyn, Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence (New York: Random House, 1992)

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