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Baptized December 29, 1561 • Harwich • England
Died August 1617 • Bantam • Indonesia
Founder Jamestown Colony
John Smith
John Smith
British explorer
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Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Sir Thomas Smythe
British entrepreneur
William Pitt, the Elder
William Pitt, the Elder
prime minister of United Kingdom
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
English explorer
Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
British politician and social reformer
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
British colonial administrator
Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex
English soldier
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
British statesman
Sir William Berkeley
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Sir Edward Poynings
English lord deputy of Ireland
Sir Anthony Saint Leger
English lord deputy of Ireland
Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester
English lord deputy of Ireland
Sir Samuel Argall
English sailor
John Rolfe
John Rolfe
British colonial official
Sir Kenneth Blackburne
British colonial administrator
Bartholomew Gosnold
English explorer
Sir Frank Swettenham
British colonial official
William Claiborne
American colonial governor