Sir Walter Raleigh was born around 1552 in Hayes Barton, Devon (Thomson 1). Raleigh was the youngest of five sons to Catherine Champermowne and Walter Raleigh. He grew up in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon (Biography). Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh’s father, was married three times. His son, Raleigh, was the child of Catherine. Catherine, Raleigh’s mother, had three sons, John, Humphery, and Adrian Gilbert, by her first marriage. She was a widow of Ortho Gilbert, John…
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