Edward maria wingfield biography
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When Edward Maria Wingfield was born in 1550, in Cambridgeshire, England, his father, Sir Thomas Maria Wingfield M.P., was 35 and his mother, Margaret Kaye, was 21. He immigrated to Jamestown, Virginia, British Colonial America in 1607. His occupation is listed as the virginia company, first president in Virginia, British Colonial America. He died on 13 April 1631, in Kimbolton, Herefordshire, England, at the age of 81, and was buried in St Andrew's Church, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England.
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Early Years
Wingfield was born in 1550 at Stoneley Priory, near Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England, the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield and his wife Margaret Kay. Thomas Wingfield, a member of Parliament who belonged to a well-established political and military family, died in 1557, and in 1562 Margaret Wingfield married James Creuse (also spelled Cruwys and Crewes), who became the adolescent Edward’s guardian. Wingfield was raised as a Protestant; the “Maria” in Edward’s and Thomas’s names honored their godmother, King Henry VIII’s sister Mary Tudor.
As he came to manhood, Wingfield was the protégé of his father’s brother Jaques Wingfield (d. 1587), who was heavily involved in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland, serving as Master of Ordnance in Ireland, as Constable of Dublin Castle, and as a member of the Irish Privy Council. In 1569 Wingfield accompanied his uncle to Ireland in order to assist him in the plantation of the province of Mu
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Edward Maria Wingfield
Early colonial governor in Virginia (1550–1631)
Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631[1]) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in amerika. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richard Wingfield.
Captain John Smith wrote that from 1602 to 1603 Wingfield was one of the early and prime movers and organisers in "showing great charge and industry"[2] in getting the Virginia Venture moving: he was one of the kvartet incorporators for the London Virginia Company in the Virginia Charter of 1606 and one of its biggest financial backers.[3] He recruited (with his cousin, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) about forty of the 104 would-be colonists, and was the only shareholder to sail. In the first election in the New World, he was elected by his peers as the President of the governing council for one year beginning 13 May 1607, of what became the first successful, English-speaking colony in th