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Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631 [1]) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richard Wingfield .
Edward Maria Wingfield (Stonely, 1550 – 1631) è stato un militare, navigatore e politico inglese, membro del Parlamento e primo governatore della Colonia della Virginia
26 mag 2017 · ENTRY. Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631) SUMMARY. Edward Maria Wingfield was a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia, a group of Jamestown settlers appointed by the company to make local decisions for the colony.
Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield, of Stonely Priory near Huntingdon, born 1550, a distinguished soldier in the Low Countries and Ireland. One of the Big Eight named in the 1606 Virginia Charter. In 1607 the Founding Father of Jamestown, Virginia. Crews alias Cruwys, Gamaliel, of Swaffham, Norfolk.
Edward Maria Wingfield. Edward-Maria Wingfield was the only member of the Virginia Company s leaders to go to Jamestown to oversee his investment and became the colony s first president. Wingfield came from wealthy stock in England and served in the military in Holland and Ireland.
In Jamestown Colony: Origins (1606–07) …initiators of the Virginia Company; Edward-Maria Wingfield, a major investor; John Ratcliffe; George Kendall; John Martin; and Capt. John Smith, a former mercenary who had fought in the Netherlands and Hungary. Wingfield became the colony’s first president.
b. c.1550, 1st s. of Thomas Maria Wingfield † of Stoneley by Margaret, da. of Edward Kaye of Woodsome, Yorks. unm. suc. fa. 15 Aug. 1557. Offices Held. Capt. in Ireland and Netherlands c.1575-90; patentee of Virginia Co. 10 Apr. 1606; member of council and president, Virginia May-Sept. 1607.1. Biography
