1542
Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (died 1591)
Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (died 1591)
Richard Grenville, English captain and explorer (died 1591)
Richard Grenville
English politician, soldier and explorer (1542–1591)
- Born
- 1542
Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland specifically the Munster plantations, the English colonisation of the Americas and the repulse of the Spanish Armada.