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Walter Raleigh

c. 1552–1618 · 16th century · Also known as Sir Walter Raleigh, Walter Ralegh

Walter Raleigh (c. 1552–1618) was an English courtier, soldier, explorer and writer, a favourite of Elizabeth I. He sponsored the failed Roanoke colony in North America, and in 1595 sailed to Trinidad and up the Orinoco in search of El Dorado. Governor of Jersey from 1600, he was imprisoned by James I in 1603, wrote a History of the World in the Tower, and was executed in 1618 after a second Orinoco expedition attacked a Spanish settlement.

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