Editing Nathaniel Eaton (section)

{{Short description|First Headmaster of Harvard college}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Reverend]]
| name                = Nathaniel Eaton
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| order               = 
| title               = [[President of Harvard University#Presidents of Harvard|Headmaster of Harvard College]]
| term_start          = 1637
| term_end            = 1639
| successor           = [[Henry Dunster]] {{small|''(as President)''}}
| birth_date          = Before 17 September 1609 (baptism)
| birth_place         = [[Great Budworth]],<ref>{{cite web|title=England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538 – 2000|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3LD-T58|website=FamilySearch.org|access-date=29 December 2017}}</ref> [[Cheshire]], [[Kingdom of England]]
| death_date          = Before 11 May 1674 (burial)
| death_place         = [[Southwark, London|Southwark]],<ref>{{cite book|title=London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812|location=London Metropolitan Archives, St George the Martyr, Southwark, Composite register|page=92/GEO/141|edition=Mar 1665 – Mar 1685}}</ref> [[Surrey]], Kingdom of England
| alma_mater          = [[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[University of Padua]]
}}

'''Nathaniel Eaton''' (before 17 September 1609 − before 11 May 1674) was an Anglican clergyman who was the first [[President of Harvard University#Presidents of Harvard|Headmaster]] of [[Harvard]],<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqBOBK-cRBsC&dq=nathaniel+eaton+headmaster&pg=PA68 |title=Town Born: The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution (Early American Studies) |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |date=2009-10-09 |isbn=978-0812202618 |access-date=2009-10-09 }}</ref> [[Chairperson|President designate]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQMdzhnfaSwC&q=nathaniel+eaton+preside+there&pg=PA200 | title=The Founding of Harvard College | isbn=9780674314511 | last1=Morison | first1=Samuel Eliot | year=1995 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JyTPAAAAMAAJ&q=nathaniel+eaton+president+designate&pg=PA612 | title=Harvard Alumni Bulletin | year=1914 }}</ref> and builder of Harvard's first College, Yard, and Library, in 1636.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PQMdzhnfaSwC&dq=nathaniel+eaton+apple+orchard&pg=PA229 |title=The Founding of Harvard College |publisher=Harvard University Press (Jan. 1 1935) |date=1935-01-01 |isbn=9780674314511 |access-date=2009-10-09 |archive-date=19 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819141428/http://https/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Cambridge on the Charles">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7_oCS782-8C&dq=nathaniel+eaton+founded+old+college&pg=PA156 |title=Cambridge on the Charles |publisher= Anne Miniver Press; First Edition |date=2001-01-01 |isbn=9780962579493 |access-date=2021-08-01 }}</ref>

Nathaniel was the uncle of Samuel Eaton, one of the seven founding members and signatories of the [[Harvard Corporation]] by charter in 1650.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=880222&p=6323072 |title=Harvard Charter of 1650 |publisher=Harvard University}}</ref>

[[File:Harvard_Old_College.jpg|thumb|[[Harvard College]]'s first building (1638–1670), as imagined by [[Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel E. Morison]]<ref>[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/1178880 Clipping from The Harvard Bulletin], on discovery of southeast corner of original Harvard College building during subway excavations, 1910. Records of early Harvard buildings, 1710-1969, UAI 15.10.5, Box: 1, Folder: 8. Harvard University Archives</ref>]]