Elizabeth I was an early supporter of English involvement in the slave trade and gave permission to the adventurer Sir John ...

a son of Walter (died 1581), deputy vice-admiral in the south west of England in the reign of Mary I , and his third wife Katherine (Champernowne) (she was sister to Kat Astley, governess to Princess ...

Sir Walter Raleigh ... Born in 1554, close to Budleigh Salterton in Devon, Raleigh’s family were already well-connected to the higher echelons of society. His aunt, for example, was Queen Elizabeth ...