Benjamin Hallowell (August 17, 1799 – September 7, 1877) was the first president of the Maryland Agricultural College.

[2] Hallowell met his wife Margaret, the sister of William Henry Farquhar, at Westtown School.

[2] In November 1819, he started his first official teaching position at Fair Hill Boarding School in Montgomery County, Maryland.

[3] In 1824, Hallowell opened a boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia, where his nephew Arthur Briggs Farquhar would later attend.

[4] His most famous student was Robert E. Lee who studied at the school for a month before entering West Point.