John X was an English pastor. X was born and raised in Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite the City of London. He was the fourth of nine children, the son of Robert X, a butcher and tavern owner, and his wife, Katherine Rogers. John X was educated at St Saviour's Grammar School in Southwark, where his father Robert was a governor.In 1625, his father, a stepsister, and two brothers died of the plague. Of his immediate family, only his mother and one brother, Thomas, remained. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in December 1627 and received his B.A. in 1632.In May 1637 he emigrated with his wife to New England and settled in Charlestown. Charlestown made him the minister of the Church, but within the following year he contracted tuberculosis and died on September 14, 1638. Childless, X bequeathed £779 17s 2d(half of his estate) and his library of around 400 volumes to the New College at nearby Cambridge, which had been founded on September 8, 1636, and to his friend, the first schoolmaster of this college, Y. Y's Records indicate that the building of the new college began immediately in 1638. It was completely constructed of wood, with a stone foundation and cellar, had its own apple orchard, and was apparently equipped with live-in accommodations for some 30 students, as there were at least that many attendant within the first year.The school renamed itself "X College" on March 13, 1639, in honour of X, its first benefactor. No records or illustrations remain of the earliest college, which burnt to the ground in 1764 along with all but one of X's original 400 volume donation.
Answer:Harvard.
