can u tell me some things about sr. francis drake please!?!?!?

Question

any thing and every thing will do

i mean the one who went and caused big probs for the spanish and was later knighted by queen elizabeth

i am mostly interested in detials of his personality but as it says anything and everything will do! :)

Answer 1

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, one of two sons of Mary Mylwaye and her husband Edmund Drake (1518–1585), a Protestant farmer who later became a preacher, grandson of John Drake and Margret Cole. He is often confused with his nephew Francis Drake (1573–1634), the son of Richard Drake and Ursula Stafford, grandson of John Drake (1500–1558) – Edmund's older brother – and Amy Grenville (1510–1577), and great-grandson of John Drake and Margaret Cole (cf. John White, note 2). His maternal grandfather was Richard Mylwaye. His brother was Thomas Drake.

He was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, and throughout his cousins' lineages are direct connections to the Royalty and famous people such as Sir Richard Grenville, through Amy Grenville, and Geoffrey Chaucer, through Ursula Stafford. Ursula's line may be traced to royalty within four generations. This said, James Froude states that "He told Camden that he was of mean extraction. He meant merely that he was proud of his parents and made no idle pretensions to noble birth. His father was a tenant of the Earl of Bedford, and must have stood well with him, for Francis Russell, the heir of the earldom, was the boy's godfather."

John Drake and Margaret Cole were also great-grandparents of Sir Walter Raleigh.

As with many of Drake's contemporaries, the exact date of his birth is unknown and could be as early as 1535, the 1540 date being extrapolated from two portraits: one a miniature painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581 when he was allegedly 42, the other painted in 1594 when he was alleged to be 53 according to the 1921/22 edition of the Dictionary of National Biography, which quotes Barrow's Life of Drake (1843) p. 5. Francis was the second eldest of 12 children; as he was not granted legal right to his father's farm, he had to find his own career.

During the Roman Catholic uprising of 1549, the family was forced to flee to Kent. At about the age of 13 Francis took to the sea on a cargo barque, becoming master of the ship at the age of 20. He spent his early career honing his sailing skills on the difficult waters of the North Sea, and after the death of the captain for whom he was sailing he became master of his own barque. At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the New World under the sails of the Hawkins family of Plymouth, in company with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins. Together, Hawkins and Drake made the first English slave-trading expeditions, making his fortune through the sale of West Africans.

Answer 2

He has a boarding house named after him at The Royal Hospital School in Suffolk, England. It is a naval school and all the houses are named after distinguished Admirals.

Answer 3

There is a good write up on him in Wikipedia, the freee, online encyclopedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

PIRATE. caused so much trouble for the Spanish that the brits beknighted him.

Answer 5

yes, he was a sailor in the 1800s so like yeah and he explored around the world! duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!