biography
pronunciation:
[suhmerz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1554–1610)
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| biography:
| English colonist, a founder of the South Virginia Company. In 1610 he was commander of a fleet of settlers which was shipwrecked on the Bermudas (originally known as the Somers Is), and claimed the islands for the British crown. |
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