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The birthplace of John Rolfe, born c. 1585, remains unproven. At that time, the Spanish Empire held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade. Most Spanish colonies in the Americas were located in South America and the West Indies, which were more favorable to tobacco growth than their English counterparts (founded in the early 17th century, notably Jamestown in 1607).
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Robert Harris in a 1958 BBC Radio broadcast of Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John. [16] Robert Eddison in a 1967 BBC Radio broadcast of Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John. [17] Hadyn Jones in the 1971 play John, By the Grace of God by Lydia Ragosin, Haydn Jones and Beatrix Lehmann. This play depicts John as being secretly ...
John Richard Rolfe (1935 – 12 August 2020) was a British actor. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was named after the colonist who married Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia . His stage work includes appearances at the Bristol Old Vic and with the RSC . [ 5 ]
Governor Dale sailed back to England in the spring of 1616 aboard the Treasurer. Accompanying him on what was considered an investor-relations journey were John Rolfe, his wife Rebecca (Pocahontas), and their one-year-old son, Thomas Rolfe. [6] Samuel Argall commanded that ship.
Hubert's Arthur is an alternative history novel by the eccentric English writer Frederick Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') posthumously published by A. J. A. Symons in 1935. [1] It started as a collaboration between Rolfe and Harry Pirie-Gordon, but in the end the latter only supplied the copious heraldic details pertaining to the characters.
John Rolfe (1585–1622) was an English settler of Virginia and husband of Pocahontas. John Rolfe may also refer to: John Carew Rolfe (1859–1943), American classicist
Jane Rolfe was born in Varina, Henrico County, Virginia on October 10, 1650 [1] to Thomas Rolfe and his wife, Jane Poythress, whose parents were Francis Poythress and Alice Payton of England. [2] [3] [4] Thomas Rolfe was the son of John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas. [5] Jane Rolfe married Robert Bolling of Prince George County, Virginia.