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Bartholomew Gosnold (1571 – 22 August 1607) was an English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod.
Bartholomew Gosnold (Grundisburgh, 1572 – 22 agosto 1607) è stato un esploratore e giurista inglese, fra i fondatori della Virginia Company e della Colonia della Virginia nel 1607 a Jamestown. Egli viene considerato, assieme al cugino Edward Maria Wingfield, uno dei fautori della spedizione che decise della "colonizzazione della ...
Bartholomew Gosnold (born c. 1572, Grundisburgh, Suffolk, Eng.—died Aug. 22, 1607, Jamestown, Va.) was an English explorer and colonizer. The eldest son of an English country squire, Bartholomew Gosnold attended Cambridge University before marrying and settling at Bury St. Edmunds in the late 1590s.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
22 dic 2021 · SUMMARY. Bartholomew Gosnold was one of the leading figures of the English settlement at Jamestown, helping to organize the Virginia Company of London and landing in Virginia with the first group of adventurers in 1607. Born in Suffolk, on the eastern coast of England, in 1571, he joined Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, on his ...
5 gen 2024 · Born in 1571, Bartholomew Gosnold came from an East Anglian manorial family that traveled in the orbit of the Earl of Essex. Since 1401 the Gosnolds had tenanted and then owned Otley Hall and the manor of Otley some eight miles northwest of the Suffolk seaport and county town of Ipswich.
- Dana Huntley
Captain Bartholomew Gosnold. The first settlers at Jamestown knew how important Captain Bartholomew Gosnold (Gosnoll) was to the venture. He was a successful mariner and privateer, and Captain John Smith named him the “prime mover” of the founding of Jamestown.
24 giu 2015 · Dana Huntley in British Heritage argues Bartholomew Gosnold perhaps more than any other single individual is responsible for the establishment of British North America. His history, “ought to have recognized in one sense as at least the Founding Grandfather of these fair colonies,” wrote Huntley.
