The New York Times

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.; A New Biography of the Gallant Gentleman of the Elizabethan Era by Sir Rennell Rodd.

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The deeper history of a city: Why was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

Shakespeare asked, "What's in a name?" The metaphor works because the details in a name are too massive to put into words. One of the most important parts of Raleigh history is the man it's named ...
The Atlantic

Sir Walter Raleigh of Youghal in the County of Cork

By 1616 we find the old wardenry subleased to Sir Lawrence Parsons, and it went by his name, in all legal documents, for over two hundred years ; passing from ownership to ownership, and graced at ...
NPR

Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony Vanished Over 400 Years Ago. Scientists Are Still Looking

It's one of the nation's great mysteries: The first permanent colony of English settlers in what would become the U.S., founded in North Carolina in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh, disappeared three years ...