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[[image:WalterRaleigh3.jpg|300px|thumb|Sir Walter Raleigh, 1590.]]
'''Sir Walter Raleigh'''(c1554-1618) English courtier, poet, soldier, and sometime privateer, and colonist. He was one of the Devon gentry like Francis Drake, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville and others who rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I, and harried Spain so mercilessly, both before and after the Armada of 1588.
'''Sir Walter Raleigh'''(c1554-1618) English courtier, poet, soldier, and sometime privateer, and colonist. He was one of the Devon gentry like Francis Drake, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville and others who rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I, and harried Spain so mercilessly, both before and after the Armada of 1588.