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Baptized	December 29, 1561 • Harwich • England
Died	August 1617 • Bantam • Indonesia
Founder	Jamestown Colony

John Smith

John Smith

British explorer

Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation

Richard Hakluyt

British geographer

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Sir Thomas Smythe

British entrepreneur

William Pitt, the Elder

William Pitt, the Elder

prime minister of United Kingdom

Robert Clive

Robert Clive

British colonial administrator

Engraving by J. Pofselwhite of Walter Raleigh wearing an ornate, patterned doublet, ruffled collar, and feathered hat, with one hand on his hip.

Sir Walter Raleigh

English explorer

Frank Holl: Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain

British politician and social reformer

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

British colonial administrator

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Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex

English soldier

George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, engraving

George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore

British statesman

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Sir William Berkeley

British colonial official

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Sir Edward Poynings

English lord deputy of Ireland

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Sir Anthony Saint Leger

English lord deputy of Ireland

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Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester

English lord deputy of Ireland

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Sir Samuel Argall

English sailor

John Rolfe

John Rolfe

British colonial official

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Sir Kenneth Blackburne

British colonial administrator

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Bartholomew Gosnold

English explorer

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Sir Frank Swettenham

British colonial official

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William Claiborne

American colonial governor