Sir John Burgh (1562–1594) was an English military and naval commander and privateer. He took troops from Lincolnshire to serve in the Netherlands in 1585; was subsequently knighted; made governor of Doesburg; and governor of the Briel in early 1588; commanded one of the English regiments which helped Henry IV of France in 1589–90, and was knighted on the field at Ivry in 1590; finally commanded the squadron which captured the great Spanish treasure-ship off the Azores in 1592, and was killed in a duel respecting the plunder.
Model of the Portuguese carrack Madre de Dios. Burgh took her a prize in 1592
The arrival of the Great Carrack Madre de Dios at Dartmouth Harbour, 18 September 1592; envisaged in a 19th-century watercolour
William Drury (MP for Suffolk)
Sir William Drury was an English landowner and member of parliament. He was the father of Sir Robert Drury, patron of the poet John Donne.
Sir William Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk, 1587.