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Walter Ralegh

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Noun1.Walter Ralegh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize VirginiaWalter Ralegh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)


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9781906359188 Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland, (reprint, 1883) Hennessy, Sir John Pope.
Whitehead continues his work on the German traveler Hans Staden, comparing his narrative of South America with that of Walter Ralegh.
6) Affinities might have relatively clear links to religious or other beliefs--as is the case with groups of reforming Kentish gentry in the 1530s, or northern Catholic landowners in the 1560s (7)--but they might also be tied together chiefly by a loose set of economic interests, or by a set of traditional privileges, like the groups of tin-miners whose interests Sir Walter Ralegh sought, in his capacity of Warden of the Stanneries, to defend against local Justices of the Peace.
 
 
 
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