Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I.
The Boyhood of Raleigh by John Everett Millais, 1871
"Raleigh's First Pipe in England", an illustration included in Frederick William Fairholt's Tobacco, its history and associations
Engraved portrait of Raleigh
Humphrey Gilbert
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville.
A stamp depicting Gilbert
Plaque commemorating Gilbert's founding of the British Empire in St. John's, Newfoundland
The last moments of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by Edward Ollier (c. 1900)