George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 13th Baron de Clifford, 13th Lord of Skipton, was an English peer, naval commander, and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was notable at court for h
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, after Nicholas Hilliard
Brougham Castle, birthplace of George Clifford, a residence of the Clifford family since the late 13th century
Chest tomb of George Clifford in Holy Trinity Church, Skipton
Sir George Clifford's tournament armour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed for Indian Ocean trade, initially with the East Indies, and
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
…a Peer in the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots. The Queen made him a Knight of the Garter in 1592, and Clifford was also involved in the formation of the East India Company. Clifford was a man of irregular life, and having run through a great part of his very handsome property, seized on the opportunity offered by the war…
James Lancaster commanded the first East India Company voyage in 1601.
Red Dragon fought the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally in 1612, and made several voyages to the East Indies.
The emperor Jahangir investing a courtier with a robe of honour, watched by Sir Thomas Roe, English ambassador to the court of Jahangir at Agra from 1615 to 1618, and others
A document with the original vermilion seal of Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to the East India Company in 1613