Name Index

to

Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on authentic and original documents

by

Patrick Fraser Tytler

London: T. Nelson & Sons (1853), pp. 412.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The author was son of Lord Woodhouselee. He was born in Edinburgh, where he attended the Royal High School. Called to the bar in 1813, in 1816 he became King's counsel in the Exchequer, and practised as an advocate until 1832. His book on Raleigh was written at Torquay. Sir Walter Raleigh, English navigator, born in Hayes, in the parish of Budleigh, Devonshire, England, in 1552; died in Westminster, England, 29 October, 1618. His patronymic was written in 13 different ways, but Sir Walter himself spelled it Ralegh. Little is known of his father, Walter, except that he was a gentleman commoner, and that an earnest wayside remonstrance from him with the Romanist rioters of the west in 1544 caused his imprisonment for three days, and threats of hanging when he was liberated. His mother was the daughter of Sir Philip Champernown, of Modbury, and the widow of Otto Gilbert, by whom she was the mother of Sir John, Sir Humphrey, and Sir Adrian Gilbert. The book, held as part of the Gordon Lester Ford Collection at the New York Public Library was produced from a digital copy that can be downloaded from Google Books, with a search by either author of title. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers. The book provides an extensive appendix and a general index (pp. 409-412).