page_title: Boston Brahmin
section_title: Brahmin families
hierarchical_section_title: Boston Brahmin / Brahmin families
caption_attribution_description: English: John Phillips (1719-1795), founder of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire.
context_page_description: The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional old upper class. They are often associated with Harvard University, Anglicanism, aristocratic clubs such as the Somerset in Boston, the Knickerbocker in New York, the Metropolitan in Washington D.C., the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco, and traditional Anglo-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins.
caption: Educator and founder of Phillips Exeter Academy, John Phillips
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