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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer  

Harry Kelsey

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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer, was born about February or March 1540 in Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon, the eldest of five known children of Edmund Drake (d. 1566) of Tavistock. Edmund's wife is unknown, though she may have been named ...

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Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)  

Maker: Jodocus Hondius?

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Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596) by Jodocus Hondius? © Copyright The British Museum

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Frobisher, Sir Martin (1535?–1594), privateer, explorer, and naval commander  

James McDermott

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Frobisher, Sir Martin (1535?–1594), privateer, explorer, and naval commander, was descended from John Frobisher (b. c.1260), a Scot settled in lands near Chirk in Denbighshire granted in recognition of his services to Edward I during the Welsh wars. In the mid-fourteenth century the family crossed the ...

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Frobisher, Sir Martin (1535?–1594)  

Maker: Cornelius Ketel

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Sir Martin Frobisher (1535?–1594) by Cornelius Ketel, 1577 © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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Laird, Macgregor (1808–1861), shipbuilder and explorer  

John Flint

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Laird, Macgregor (1808–1861), shipbuilder and explorer, was born in Greenock, the younger son of William Laird, founder of the Birkenhead firm of shipbuilders, and Agnes Macgregor; he was the brother of John Laird. On leaving school in Edinburgh he was given a partnership in the business by his father....