Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (born 1542)

Richard Grenville

English politician, soldier and explorer (1542–1591)

Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland specifically the Munster…