Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (died 1649)

Robert Dudley (explorer)

English engineer, explorer and cartographer (1574–1649)

Sir Robert Dudley was an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies, of which he wrote an account. The illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, he inherited the bulk of the Earl's estate in accordance with his father's…