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Sir John Hawkins (left) with Sir Francis Drake (centre) and Sir Thomas Cavendish. In 1562, the West African slave trade was a duopoly dominated by the Portuguese and the Spanish. Sir John Hawkins devised a plan to break into that trade, and enlisted the aid of colleagues and family to finance his first slave voyage.
Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet (1588 – 11 March 1637) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1625 and 1629. Drake was the son of Thomas Drake of Buckland Abbey , Devon and his wife, Elizabeth Gregory, widow of John Elford.
Their daughter Elizabeth, born about 1562, became the second wife of Sir Francis Drake. Margaret Hales, who married firstly Lewis West, secondly Ralph Dodmore, and thirdly William Horden of Kent. Mary Hales, who married firstly Alexander Culpeper and secondly in 1554 Thomas Arundell.
Drake was the son of Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet of Buckland Abbey and his second wife Joan Stroud, daughter of Sir William Stroud of Newnham. He was a great-nephew of Vice Admiral, Sir Francis Drake. [1] He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 11 March 1637. He was appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1645. [2]
The Drake Baronetcy of Buckland, in the County of Devon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 2 August 1622 for Francis Drake, nephew of the privateer and explorer Sir Francis Drake. [4] The first baronet was also a Member of Parliament , as were all his successors.
His son and heir was Henry Pollexfen (died 1732) of Nutwell, who married in 1699 Gertrude Drake, daughter of Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642 - 1718) of Buckland Abbey, by his 1st wife Dorothy Bampfield (died 1679) wife. Sir Francis had married as his third wife Elizabeth Pollexfen, Henry's sister. [47]
Francis Fletcher 's map of Elizabeth Island. Elizabeth Island is the name given to an island off the tip of South America visited by Sir Francis Drake in September 1578, during his circumnavigation of the globe. The island was not seen again and is regarded as a phantom. Various suggestions have been offered as to where Drake landed. [1]
Oscar Merril Hartzell (1876–1943) was an American con man who ran a confidence scam by claiming rightful ownership of the estate of Sir Francis Drake. In total, Hartzell swindled at least $2 million ($35.2 million in 2023), from 70,000 to 80,000 people. [1]