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Hace 1 día · Ralph Lane was appointed governor of the colony, and Philip Amadas would serve as admiral, although the fleet commander Sir Richard Grenville led the overall mission. Civilian attendants included Joachim Gans , metallurgist, Thomas Harriot , a scientist, and John White, an artist.
Hace 1 día · Medieval Abbey converted into a Tudor house during the Dissolution. Once home to seafarers Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake.
Hace 1 día · Granville Earl of Bath. — This ancient Norman family came over with William the Conqueror. Richard de Grenville, who married Isabel, daughter of Walter Giffard Earl of Buckingham, was common ancestor of the Grenvilles of Devonshire and Cornwall, and the Grenvilles of Buckinghamshire.
Hace 2 días · Drake acted on the plan authored by Sir Richard Grenville, who in 1574 had received a royal patent for that purpose; just a year later this patent had been rescinded after Elizabeth I learned of Grenville's intentions against the Spanish.
Hace 1 día · Sir Richard Grenville of Bideford, who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, distinguished himself as an adventuring navigator, and was, with his countryman Sir Walter Ralegh, the joint discoverer of Virginia and Carolina, of which he published an account.
Hace 5 días · Sir Richard Grenville was quartered at Oakhampton in December, 1645, with a considerable force, and had barricadoed the town; but, on the approach of Sir Thomas Fairfax's army, suddenly quitted his post, and retreated into Cornwall.
Hace 3 días · A portrait of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591) heroic captain of the Revenge. The Grenville family were for many centuries lords of the manor of Bideford and played a major role in the town's development. The monument with an effigy of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) exists in St Mary's Church.
