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[[image:WalterRaleigh3.jpg|300px|thumb|Sir Walter Raleigh, 1590.]]

[[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.

As a teenager he joined the Huguenot (Protestant) cause in France where he fought for six years. In 1578 he joined Gilbert in an expedition against the Spaniards and was lucky to return with his life. 1580-81 found him soldiering in Ireland. Thereafter he rose swiftly in favour and patronage, and was knighted in 1584. He became captain of the Queen's guard and lord-lieutenant of Cornwall.

As a teenager he joined the Huguenot (Protestant) cause in France where he fought for six years. In 1578 he joined Gilbert in an expedition against the Spaniards and was lucky to return with his life. 1580-81 found him soldiering in Ireland. Thereafter he rose swiftly in favour and patronage, and was knighted in 1584. He became captain of the Queen's guard and lord-lieutenant of Cornwall.