John Harvard Library is a public lending library on Borough High Street in Southwark, London. The Southwark Local History Library is adjacent.
The library bears the name of Southwark clergyman John Harvard (1607-1638), who emigrated to Massachusetts and bequeathed most of his estate, including hundreds of books, to the college now known as Harvard University.
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