Three Tablets to be Unveiled to Memory of Harvard Descendant

A tribute to the memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, only lineal descendant of John Harvard to graduate from Harvard College, will be put in place this summer according to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin. Three identical bronze tablets will be unveiled at the John Harvard house at Stratford-on-Avon, England, Lionel Hall, and the D. U. Clubhouse, Cambridge.

Lionel deJersey Harvard graduated from the College in 1915, returned to England and enlisted in the Grenadier Guards. Kenneth Harvard his younger brother, was transferred to the Guards and the brothers served together on the Western Front. Kenneth was killed in the fall of 1917, near Messines and his brother crept out the following night to recover the body and bury it. Lionel himself was killed on March 30, 1918, in the German drive on Amiens.

A. B. Houghton '86, American Ambassador to England, is expected to attend the unveiling ceremony at Stratford. The Lionel Hall tablet will be disclosed during Commencement week.

The tablets will be of bronze, 20 by 30 inches, with a laurel leaf border the Harvard shield at the top.

The first suggestion that a memorial to Lionel deJersey Harvard be placed in the home of John Harvard was made by H. G. Knight '13, at a meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Detroit in 1924. A committee to carry out the plan was appointed immediately by the president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, consisting of J. P. Brown '14, J. S. Fleek '15, H. G. Knight '13, and J. B. Munn '12.

Lionel de Jersey Harvard was born at Lewisham, England, on June 3, 1893, the son of Mr. Thomas Harvard, a prosperous London business man. At the age of eighteen he was entered for Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where many of his ancestors, including John Harvard, had received their education. In the summer of 1911, however, he was persuaded by a group of Harvard graduates to come to America and enter Harvard. He arrived at the opening of the college term in September and was soon embarked upon the career of an undergraduate. His coming to Cambridge attracted wide attention, and much was made of the fact that for the first time in nearly 300 years a member of the Harvard family was attending Harvard College.