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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Walter Raleigh, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, Desmond Fitzpatrick, Henry Seymour Conway, Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, George Don, George Carteret, Jean Cavalier, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, George Erskine, Colin Halkett, George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle, Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, Richard Harliston, Andrew Ridgway, Michael Wilkes, John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, John Huske, Arthur Edward Grassett, Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, Amias Paulet, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans, Henry Wray, John Cheshire, William Pillar, Moses Corbet, John Sutton, Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet, Anthony Paulet, Alexander Wilson, John Peyton, Henry Richard Abadie. Excerpt: Sir Walter Raleigh (, or rarely; (c. 1554 - 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. Little is known for certain of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in the Siege of Smerwick. Later he became a landlord of properties confiscated from the Irish rebels. He rose rapidly in Queen Elizabeth I's favour, and was knighted in 1585. He was involved in the early English colonisation of Virginia under a royal patent. In 1591 he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without the Queen's permission for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of Lon...
