College to establish the first professorship in law at the school. This bequest led to the founding of Harvard Law School in 1817. In 1936, to celebrate the university's tercentenary, Harvard alumnus and former English professor Pierre de Chaignon la Rose drew seals for each of Harvard's graduate schools. For Harvard Law School, la Rose adopted Royall's coat of arms, a blue shield adorned with three sheaves of wheat. This seal was adopted by the Harvard Corporation. In 2016, the seal became the object of controversy, given Royall's prominence as the largest slaveholder in Massachusetts and the owner of a Caribbean slave-labor plantation. Students under the name "Royall Must Fall" (fashioned after the Rhodes Must Fall Movement) organized to have the seal removed. After several racist incidents within the Law School community, Law School Dean Martha L. Minow was pressured by students to create a committee of students, faculty, staff, and alumni to recommend whether to change the seal. In 2016, Harvard Law School officially decided to scrap the seal that contained Royall's arms. References 1719 births 1781 deaths People from Medford, Massachusetts American slave traders People of colonial Massachusetts University and college founders Deaths from smallpox American slave owners American justices of the peace