page_title: Lionel de Jersey Harvard
hierarchical_section_title: Lionel de Jersey Harvard
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Lionel de Jersey Harvard (3 June 1893 – 30 March 1918), "the only Harvard to attend Harvard", in his senior year. The same photo appears in local press in connection with coverage (e.g. [1]) of Commencement Day festivities, June 1915
context_page_description: Lionel de Jersey Harvard was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College
  founder
  John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915.
  The first Harvard to attend Harvard, he died in the First World War less than three years later, leaving a wife and infant son.
  After his death a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them."
  Harvard's Lionel Hall, and its Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship, are named in his honour.
context_section_description: Lionel de Jersey Harvard (1893–1918) was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College
  founder
  John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915.
  The first Harvard to attend Harvard, he died in the First World War less than three years later, leaving a wife and infant son.
  After his death a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them."
  Harvard's Lionel Hall, and its Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship, are named in his honour.
caption: As a Harvard senior
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