Ferdinando Gorges
English military officer; colonialist · Politicians · Lived 1565 to 1647 · aged 82
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was a naval and military commander and governor of the important port of Plymouth in England. He was involved in Essex's Rebellion against the Queen, but escaped punishment by testifying against the main conspirators.
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Arms of Russell of Kingston Russell & Dyrham: Argent, on a chief gules three bezants
Quartered arms of Gorges on the chest-tomb of Sir Edmund Gorges (d. 1512) and his wife Lady Anne Howard, showing Gorges (modern) and Russell, All Saints’ Church, Wraxall, Somerset
America Painted to the Life, book published in London, 1659, by Ferdinando Gorges Esq., grandson of Ferdinando GorgesAwards
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His early involvement in English trade with and settlement of North America as well as his efforts in founding the Province of Maine in 1622 earned him the title of the "Father of English Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.
