Explorer - 16th-18th century

5 famous people found

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  Walter RALEIGH

  English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer

  1552 - 1618
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  Thomas CAVENDISH

  English explorer and a privateer

  1560 - 1592
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  Alexander Spotswood

  British Army officer, explorer and lieutenant governor of Colonial Virginia

  1676 - 1740
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  Bartholomew Gosnold

  English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America

  1571 - 1607
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  William BRADFORD

  English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620

  1589 - 1657