Richard Whitbourne
Sir Richard Whitbourne (1579–1628) was an English colonist, author and mariner.
Richard Whitbourne was born near Teignmouth in Devon, England. Whilst apprenticed to a merchant adventurer of Southampton, he sailed extensively around Europe and twice to Newfoundland. He served in a ship of his own against the Great Armada under Lord Admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk. He spent the next thirty years in cod fishing off Newfoundland. He assisted the pirates Peter Easton and Henry Mainwaring to seek pardons from James I of England.[1]
Asked by William Vaughan to govern his colony at Renews in Newfoundland, he did so from 1618 until 1620 when Vaughan abandoned the venture. Whitbourne was sent to establish law and order in the colony, he was the first to hold a court of justice in North America at Trinity in 1615.[2]
In 1620, Whitbourne published A Discourse and Discovery of New-found-land in order to promote colonisation on the island.
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[edit] References and notes
- ^ Richard Whidborne (2005) Crosses & Comforts: The Life and Times of Captain Sir Richard Whitbourne, ISBN 0954965507
- ^ Paul O'Neill (2003) The Oldest City, The Story of St. John's, Newfoundland (p. 81), ISBN 0-9730271-2-6
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Whitbourne, Sir Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
[edit] External links
- Government House The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- A Discourse and Discovery of New-found-land by Richard Whitbourne (1620)
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