Richard Hakluyt
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish author, editor and translator (1553-1616)
Richard Hakluyt was an English writer and Anglican Protestant priest. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation...
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The library of Christ Church, Oxford, by an unknown artist, from Rudolph Ackermann's History of Oxford (1813)
The Norman chapter house of Bristol Cathedral (engraving from 1882). Hakluyt was a member of the chapter.
A 1910 memorial tablet to Hakluyt in Bristol Cathedral
The title page of the first edition of Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)
Modern memorial to Richard Hakluyt in the chancel of All Saints' Church, Wetheringsett, Suffolk
The seal of the Virginia Company of London
The first page of Vol. I of the 2nd edition of Hakluyt's The Principall Nauigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoueries of the English Nation (1598)Writers from United Kingdom 6
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Richard Hakluyt was an English writer and Anglican Protestant priest. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589-1600).
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