Butler [Boteler], Nathaniel (b. 1577, d. in or after 1643), colonial governor and maritime author, was the elder son of the second marriage of John Butler (d. 1614) of the Toft, in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, and Mary, daughter of James Gedge and widow of ...
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Butler [Boteler], Nathaniel (b. 1577, d. in or after 1643), colonial governor and maritime author
Andrew Thrush
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Girouard, Sir (Édouard) Percy Cranwill (1867–1932), railway engineer and colonial governor
John Flint
Girouard, Sir (Édouard) Percy Cranwill (1867–1932), railway engineer and colonial governor, was born on 26 January 1867 in Montreal, the son of Désiré Girouard (1836–1911) and his second wife, Essie (d. 1879), daughter of Dr Joseph Cranwill of Ballynamona, Ireland. The Girouard...
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Goldsborough, Sir John (d. 1693), mariner and East India Company servant
Gordon Goodwin
revised by T. H. Bowyer
Goldsborough, Sir John (d. 1693), mariner and East India Company servant, is of obscure antecedents. A branch of the Goldsborough family was domiciled at Hadleigh near Ipswich in the seventeenth century and Goldsborough bequeathed a life interest in an estate in Suffolk to his wife; otherwise there are no indications of links with the county. He also left her house property in ...
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Morgan, Sir Henry (c. 1635–1688)
Maker: unknown engraver
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Sir Henry Morgan (c. 1635–1688) by unknown engraver, pubd 1684 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Morgan, Sir Henry (c. 1635–1688), privateer and colonial governor
Nuala Zahedieh
Morgan, Sir Henry (c. 1635–1688), privateer and colonial governor, was the eldest son of Robert Morgan of Llanrhymny, Glamorgan.
Nothing certain is known about Morgan's education, although he later claimed that it was limited, and that having left school young, he was '...
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Rogers, Woodes (c. 1679–1732), privateer and colonial governor
Gail Saunders
Rogers, Woodes (c. 1679–1732), privateer and colonial governor, was born in Bristol, the son of Woodes Rogers (bap. 1650, d. 1706), probably a sea captain, and his wife, Frances (probably née Eyre). His great-grandfather, John Rogers of Poole, had married Ann Woods...
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Rogers, Woodes (c. 1679–1732)
Maker: William Hogarth
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Woodes Rogers (c. 1679–1732) by William Hogarth, 1729 [with members of his family] © National Maritime Museum, London
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White, Samuel [called Siamese White] (c. 1650–1689), official in the Siamese service and pirate
Stuart Rankin
White, Samuel [called Siamese White] (c. 1650–1689), official in the Siamese service and pirate, was probably born in the west of England and was probably a member of a Bristol merchant family. He was the younger brother of George White (fl....
