Person:Richard Grenville (10)

Sir Richard Grenville
b.6 Jun 1542 Devonshire, England
  1. Sir Richard Grenville1542 - 1591
  1. Sir Bernard Grenville1559 - 1636
Facts and Events
Name Sir Richard Grenville
Gender Male
Birth[1] 6 Jun 1542 Devonshire, England
Marriage to Mary St Leger
Death[1] 10 Sep 1591 At Sea, near the Azores during the Battle of Flores
Reference Number? Q389665?
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Sir Richard Grenville, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    Sir Richard Grenville (15 June 1542 – 10 September 1591), also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland, the English colonisation of the Americas and the repulse of the Spanish Armada.

    Grenville also served as Member of Parliament for Cornwall, High Sheriff for County Cork and Sheriff of Cornwall. In 1591, Grenville died at the battle of Flores fighting against an overwhelmingly larger Spanish fleet near the Azores. He and his crew on board the galleon fought against the 53-strong Spanish fleet to allow the other English ships to escape. Grenville was the grandfather of Sir Bevil Grenville, a prominent military officer during the English Civil War.

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  2.   Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
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    Grenville, Sir Richard, son of Sir Roger Grenville, and his wife Thomasine, daughter of Thomas Cole, Esq., of Slade, in Devonshire, was born in 1540, and at an early age acquired much distinction in fighting the Turks;
    member of parliament for Cornwall, 1571, and for Launceston, 1572-83;
    knighted at "Windesore," in 1577;
    sheriff of Cornwall, 1578;
    became greatly interested in foreign discoveries;
    aided Raleigh in sending out Amidas and Barlow to America, 1584;
    member of parliament for Cornwall, 1584-85, and served on committee for conferring Raleigh's patent of colonization;
    took the first colony to Virginia, April to October, 1585;
    went on a second voyage bringing supplies, April to December, 1586;
    took Spanish prizes on each voyage;
    member of council of war to resist the Spanish Armada, 1587, and fought in the great sea fight 1588;
    1591, vice-admiral of the fleet under Sir Thomas Howard, and lost his life in a sea fight near the Azores, in which his single ship withstood for many hours five Spanish galleons supported at intervals by ten others. An old chronicler asserts that it was "the stoutest sea fight ever waged."

    He married Mary, daughter of Sir John St. Leger, and their eldest son was Bernard Grenville.