Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

William Adams: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Miura Anjin • Anjin
Born 1564 • Gillingham • England
Died May 26, 1620 (aged 56) • Hirado • Japan
default image
George Dollond
British optician
default image
Peter Dollond
British optician
default image
Harold Gatty
Australian-born aviator
default image
Sir Josiah Child, 1st Baronet
British merchant
Dinis
Dinis
king of Portugal
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Warren Hastings
British colonial administrator
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
English economist David Ricardo
David Ricardo
British economist
Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stringer Lawrence
British officer
Charles T. Metcalfe
Charles T. Metcalfe
British colonial official
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
default image
Job Charnock
British official
default image
Claudius James Rich
British businessman
default image
Sir Thomas Smythe
British entrepreneur
default image
Sir John Child, Baronet
British official
Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Thomas Pitt
British merchant
default image
Sir James Lancaster
English merchant
default image
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft
British architect and engineer
default image
Sir Leon Brittan
British politician