Surname Index

to

Sir Walter Raleigh and his time: with other papers (1859).

by

Charles Kingsley

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 482pp.

Prepared by Michael Steer

Sir Walter Raleigh and his time forms Chapter 1 (pp 1-73) of Charles Kingsley's Miscellanies. 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 at the University of California 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 original copy was in the private library of Captain J.J. Brice, US Navy in 1898.