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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick KB, PC (May/June 1587 – 19 April 1658) was an English naval officer, politician and peer who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Puritan, he was also lord of the Manor of Hunningham.
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Há 4 dias · Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick (born June? 1587—died April 19, 1658, London, Eng.) was an English colonial administrator and advocate of religious toleration in the North American Colonies. As admiral of the fleet in 1642, he secured the adherence of the navy to the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil Wars (1642–51).
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2nd Earl of Warwick: Ambrose Dudley (c. 1530 –1590) 3rd Earl of Warwick: Robert Dudley (1532–1588) Earl of Leicester: Robert Rich (c. 1538 –1581) 2nd Baron Rich: Earldom of Warwick (2nd creation) extinct, 1590: Earl of Warwick (3rd creation), 1618: Fulke Greville (1536–1606) Robert Greville (?) Robert Rich (1559–1619) 1st ...
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Title: Robert Rich (1587–1658), Second Earl of Warwick. Artist: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London) Date: ca. 1632–35. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 81 7/8 x 50 3/8 in. (208 x 128 cm), with added strip of 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm) at top. Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949. Accession ...
Biographies. Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (5 June 1587 – 19 April 1658) Email. A colonial administrator and admiral, Robert was the eldest son of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick and his wife Penelope (Devereux), and succeeded to the title in 1619. His A younger brother was Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland.
Naval commander whose privateering ventures helped to estrange him from the court of Charles I; involved in the colonisation of America; associated with the foundation of New Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and later of Rhode Island (1644); raised forces for Parliament and was appointed Lord High Admiral (1643); ejected from office by the ...
Family and Education. b. 28 June 1611, 1 1st s. of Sir Robert Rich*, 2nd earl of Warwick and Frances, da. of Sir William Hatton alias Newport† of Holdenby, Northants. educ. G. Inn 1619; Emmanuel, Camb. 1626, MA 1629, DCL (Oxf.) 1642; 2 travelled abroad (France) 1632. 3 m.
