What connects Yale University, Latimer House, the churches of Flaunden, Latimer and Chenies, the slave trade and Capability Brown?
In the early seventeenth century Lord James Cavendish, third son of William the first Duke of Devonshire, married Anne Yale (d.1734), whose father was Elihu Yale (1649-1721), an American of Welsh origin.
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