Sir Francis Drake

(1540-1596)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 NRA: Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596) Knight, pirate, sea captain and explorer DNB: Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596), pirate, sea captain, and explorer LBT ID: FrDrake1596 VIAF ID: 100250627 LOC ID: n79008204	B/BAP: 1540 DIED: 1596-01-27
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The first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe (1577-80) in expeditions against the Spanish, and who participated in the destruction of the Armada (1588).
REFERENCES TO Sir Francis Drake: Robert Southey to John Rickman, 18 November 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Verse 1: p. 235a Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 5 May 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 162 Robert Southey to John May, 30 January 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804 Verse 1: p. 235a Ch. XIII. 1807 Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VII. Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25 Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 20 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 19