Person:Martin Frobisher (1)

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Sir Martin Frobisher
b.Abt 1535 Altofts, Yorkshire, England
d.15 Nov 1594 Plymouth, Devon, England
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  1. Sir Martin FrobisherAbt 1535 - 1594
  2. Margaret FrobisherBef 1542/43 - Bef 1587
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Name Sir Martin Frobisher
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] Abt 1535 Altofts, Yorkshire, England
Marriage to Dorothy Wentworth
Other[3] 7 Nov 1594 Brest, Finistère, Francewounded at the attack on Brest
Death[1] 15 Nov 1594 Plymouth, Devon, England
Burial[3] St. Giles Without Cripplegate, London City, Middlesex, England
Reference Number? Q80288?
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Martin Frobisher, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    Sir Martin Frobisher (; c. 1535 – 22 November 1594) was an English seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in north-eastern Canada, before entering Frobisher Bay and landing on present-day Baffin Island. On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and carried 200 tons of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £5.20 per ton. Encouraged, Frobisher returned to Canada with an even larger fleet and dug several mines around Frobisher Bay. He carried 1,350 tons of the ore back to England, where, after years of smelting, it was realized that the ore was a worthless rock called hornblende. As an English privateer, he plundered riches from French ships. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.

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  2.   Sir Martin Frobisher.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
    1:9.

    Frobisher, Sir Martin, son of Bernard Frobisher by his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Yorke, a great seaman and discoverer, was born at Altofts, Normanton, Yorkshire, about 1535; made a voyage to Guinea and other places; served with Gilbert in Ireland; stimulated by reading Gilbert's "Discourse to Prove a Passage by the Northwest to Cathaia and the East Indies," he began his glorious voyages to the northwest coast of North America. Before Frobisher's departure on his first voyage Queen Elizabeth sent for him, commended him for his enterprise, and when he sailed July 1, 1576, she waved her hand to him from her palace window. he explored Frobisher's strait and took possession of the land called Meta Incognita in the Queen's name. The vain hope of a gold mine inspired two other voyages to the same region (1577-78). On his third voyage he discovered Hudson strait; vice-admiral in the Drake-Sidney voyage, 1585-86; served against the Armada and was knighted in 1588; commanded vessels against the Spanish commerce 1589-92; in 1594 he commanded the squadron sent to aid Henry IV. of France; wounded at the attack on Brest, November 7; died at Plymouth, and was interred in St. Giles Church, Cripple Gate, February, 1595.

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