Francis Drake (January 1696 – 16 March 1771) was an English antiquary and surgeon, best known as the author of an influential history of York, which he...
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Francis Henry Drake, 5th Baronet (1723–1794), Master of the Household and MP for Bere Alston Francis Drake (antiquary) (1696–1771), English antiquary...
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Samuel Drake may refer to: Samuel Drake (divine) (1622–1679), English Royalist divine Samuel Drake (antiquary) (c. 1687–1753), English antiquary; grandson...
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Samuel Drake (1687/8–1753) was an English Anglican clergyman and antiquary, and elder brother of Francis Drake. He proceeded M.A. at St. John's College...
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William Drake (bapt. 1723 – 1801) was an Anglican priest, antiquary and philologist. William Drake, second surviving son of Francis Drake, historian,...
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Sherlock Holmes Edwin Drake, U.S. oil industry pioneer. Oil Creek Lodge No. 3, Titusville, Pennsylvania. Francis Drake (antiquary), York doctor and historian...
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the Río de la Plata. He was the nephew (or cousin ) of Francis Drake. Around 1583, John Drake and his crew departed from the port of Plymouth to the south...
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House of Representatives Francis Donald Logan (1930–2022), American historian Francis Drake (1540–1596), English sea captain Francis Elliott (journalist)...
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French archaeologist (d. 1765) 1696: Francis Drake, English antiquary (d. 1771) 1697: John Aubrey, English antiquary (b. 1626) 1698: Giovanni Giustino Ciampini...
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (/ˈbeɪkən/; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served...
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3213/2191-5784-10288. ISSN 1612-1651. JSTOR 44295232. Elton, Letitia MacColl (1906). The Story of Sir Francis Drake (1906 ed.). London: T. C. & E. C. Jack....
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barrister, antiquarian and archaeological benefactor (d. 1857) 1771 Francis Drake (b. 1696) "Silbury Hill: A last look inside - Current Archaeology"....
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Portrait of the antiquary Francis Drake, on display at the Treasurer's House...
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theft of Spanish and Portuguese treasures, most notably as a result of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. The term Elizabethan era was already well-established...
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Mark Horton (archaeologist) (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
banks of the Severn in a sixteenth-century house associated with Sir Francis Drake. 1996. Shanga: The Archaeology of a Muslim Trading Community on the...
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Samuel Gale (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
December 1682 – 10 January 1754) was an English antiquary, and a founder of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Samiel Gale was born in the parish of...
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lawyer, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, literary antiquary, collector and editor Sir Francis Walsingham (1532) Michael Mortimer Wheeler (1915–1992)...
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Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878–1893 Francis Peck (1692–1743), antiquary Charles Reed Peers (1868–1952), English architect and archaeologist...
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and buried in secret. Undeterred, according to the curious 17th-century antiquary John Aubrey (author of the Brief Lives), "in those days, when they went...
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diarist Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), banker Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), scholar, clergyman, novelist and antiquary Sue Barker (born...
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Robert Bigsby (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
to collecting memorabilia of Sir Francis Drake, the famous navigator of the Elizabethan era. He had inherited Drake's astrolabe, and in 1831 he presented...
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through a memorial composed by the York historian Francis Drake nearly four decades after his death. Drake knew James's son Nicholas, but never met the man...
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parish of Shute, near Colyton, Devon. Dorothy's brother was the Devon antiquary and historian Sir William Pole (1561–1635) whose principal seat was Colcombe...
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castle was manned again in preparation for the Spanish Armada in 1588, Francis Drake obtained royal funding for a modern artillery fort further south on...
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hence ensure that the recently deceased would be taken to heaven. Sir Francis Drake's Drum is a legend about the drum of an English admiral who raided Spanish...
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Christian Soldier: a Life of Sabine Baring-Gould, parson, squire, novelist, antiquary, 1834–1924, with an introduction by John Betjeman. London: Longmans, Green...
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2010-06-13. Retrieved 2017-04-28. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne (1905). Proceedings. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. p. 251. "Myths...
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Sydenham", who is not however listed in authoritative biographies. Sir Francis Drake did however have a connection with the Sydenham family of Combe Sydenham...
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with Sir Francis Drake in June 1586 after resupply attempts failed. Sir Richard Grenvile arrived shortly after the Lane colony left with Drake. He left...
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