biography
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| (fl.1585–93)
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| biography:
| Painter, cartographer, and colonial governor, born in England, UK. Nothing is known of him until he sailed with Frobisher's second expedition to Baffin I (1577). In 1585 he was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke I (now in North Carolina) as artist and mapmaker. He came back with a set of water colours that remain the primary source for the study of the flora, fauna, and indigenous inhabitants of this part of North America. It is now generally accepted that he was the John White sent as governor on the second expedition to Roanoke (1587); it was this White's daughter who gave birth to Virginia Dare, the first British child born in the New World. After returning to England for more support (1587), he returned in 1590 to find no trace of the colony. He sailed back, and was reportedly living in Newtowne, Kylmore, Ireland by 1593. |
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