Dr. John Phillips

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Dr. John Phillips (1719 - 1795) and his wife, Elizabeth Phillips, founded the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1781.

His nephew, Samuel Phillips, Jr., founded the nearby Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778. These two schools, longtime rivals in interscholastic sports as Harvard is to Yale, are among the oldest and most prestigious preparatory schools in the United States.

"Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not." -- John Phillips