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The English-born Gates arrived to find a few surviving starving colonists commanded by Percy, and assumed command. Gates ruled with deputy governor Sir Thomas Dale. Their controlled, strict methods helped the early colonies survive. Sir Thomas was knighted in 1596 by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex for gallantry at the Capture of Cadiz.
Thomas Dudley (12 October 1576 – 31 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin School and signed ...
Sir Edwin Sandys, 1776 mezzotint by Valentine Green. Sir Edwin Sandys ( / ˈsændz / SANDZ; 9 December 1561 – October 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606 established the first ...
Governor Willem Anne van Keppel, II conte di Albemarle (1737–1754, assente) Governatore de facto James Blair (1740–1741) (in nome del vice governatore Gooch mentre questo si trovava impegnato al di fuori della colonia) Vice governatore Sir William Gooch, I baronetto (1741–1749) Governatore de facto Thomas Lee (1749–1750)
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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. GATES, Sir THOMAS ( fl. 1596–1621), governor of Virginia, was knighted in 1596 while serving in the expedition against Cadiz. He entered Gray's Inn 14 March 1597–8. In July 1604 he was in the Netherlands with Sir Henry Wotton, then proceeding to Vienna as ambassador.
1:36. Gates, Sir Thomas, appointed the first and absolute governor of Virginia under the second charter to the Virginia Company of London, is said to have been born at Colyford, in Colyton parish, Devonshire; was a lieutenant of Captain Christopher Carleill's own company in the celebrated Drake-Sidney voyage to America 1585-86; published the ...
