John Phillips
Organization founder
1719 – 1795
Who was John Phillips?
John Phillips was an early American educator and patron of schools. He graduated from Harvard College in 1735. Among many other activities, he was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1773 to 1793 and endowed the Phillips Professorship of Theology there. Dartmouth awarded him an LLD in 1777.
He and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips, founded Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1781.
His nephew, Samuel Phillips, Jr., had, with help from John Phillips, founded the nearby Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1778. These two schools, longtime rivals, are among the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.
His first wife, Sarah Gilman was a wealthy widow, and he left one third of his large estate to Phillips Andover and two-thirds to Phillips Exeter. He left no children.
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- Born
- 1719
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- Lived in
- New Hampshire
- Exeter
- Died
- 1795
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on July 23, 2013
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