Richard Hakluyt
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
English author; was educated at Oxford, and became chaplain to the English embassy in Paris; wrote on historical subjects; his principal work, published in 1589, "Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation by Land and Sea," a work which, detailing as it does the great deeds of Englishmen, particularly on the sea, has borne very considerable fruit in English life and literature since (1552-1616).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
an eminent English clergyman and historian, was born in London in 1553, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He died in 1616. He published Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America, and the Islands Adjacent unto the Same, (1582). He was prebendary of Westminster in 1605, and rector of Witheringset, in Suffolk. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
