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Richard Hakluyt (/ ˈ h æ k l ʊ t, ˈ h æ k l ə t, ˈ h æ k əl w ɪ t /; [1] 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). [2] [3] [4] The company has recruited several former British spies and journalists from The Financial Times. [5] The name of the company comes from the geographer Richard Hakluyt. [6]
Discourse Concerning Western Planting was a document written by Richard Hakluyt in 1584. [1] This document was written to convince Queen Elizabeth I to support the colonization schemes of Walter Raleigh and to encourage English merchants and gentry to invest in those enterprises. [2] Richard Hakluyt presented the work privately to the queen in ...
A list of colonists is provided in Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, And Discoveries Of The English Nation, although no author is recorded for the list. The list denotes 107 men who served under Lane, for a total of 108 colonists. [1]
Richard Hakluyt (born by 1531 – died 1591), of the Middle Temple, London and Eyton in Leominster, Herefordshire, was an English barrister, a cousin of his more famous namesake. In 1558 Hakluyt was briefly a Member of the Parliament of England for Leominster .
Richard Hore (fl. 1536) was an English explorer who conducted an early voyage to the coast of what is now Newfoundland, where his passengers allegedly engaged in cannibalism in order to survive. His travels are attested in the writings of Richard Hakluyt , who documented the ill-fated expedition.
Richard Hakluyt, after whom the Society is named, pictured in a stained glass window of c. 1905 in Bristol Cathedral.. The Society was created at a meeting convened in the London Library, St James's Square, on 15 December 1846.
The first translation was by Richard Hakluyt, and was completed some time between the publication of Mare Liberum in 1609 and Hakluyt's death in 1616. [5] However, Hakluyt's translation was only published for the first time in 2004 under the title The Free Sea as part of Liberty Fund's "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series.