Everything about Robert Rich 2nd Earl Of Warwick totally explained
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (
June 5 1587–
19 April 1658), was an
English colonial administrator,
admiral, and
puritan.
Rich was the eldest son of
Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and his wife
Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and succeeded to his father's title (
Earl of Warwick) in 1619. (A younger brother was
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland.) Early developing interest in colonial ventures, he joined the Guinea, New England, and Virginia companies, as well as the
Virginia Company's offspring, the
Somers Isles Company. Warwick's enterprises involved him in disputes with the
British East India Company (1617) and with the
Virginia Company, which in 1624 was suppressed as a result of his action. In 1627 he commanded an unsuccessful
privateering expedition against the
Spaniards.
Warwick's
Puritan connections and sympathies gradually estranged him from the
court but promoted his association with the
New England colonies. In 1628 he indirectly procured the
patent for the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1631 he granted the "Saybrook" patent in
Connecticut. Forced to resign the presidency of the
New England Company in the same year, he continued to manage the
Somers Isles Company and
Providence Island Company, the latter of which, founded in 1630, administered
Old Providence on the
Mosquito Coast. Meanwhile, in England, Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of
ship money, and
Laud's church policy.
His
Richneck Plantation was located in what is now the
independent city of
Newport News, Virginia. The
Warwick River, Warwick Towne,
Warwick River Shire, and
Warwick County, Virginia are all believed named for him, as are
Warwick, Rhode Island and
Warwick Parish in
Bermuda (alias The Somers Isles). The oldest school in Bermuda, Warwick Academy, was built on land in Warwick Parish given by the Earl of Warwick; the school was begun in the 1650s (its early records were lost with those of the Warwick Vestry in a twentieth-century shipwreck), though the school places its founding officially in 1662.
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In 1642, following the dismissal of the
Earl of Northumberland as
Lord High Admiral, Warwick was appointed commander of the fleet by
Parliament. In that capacity, in 1648, Warwick
retook the '
Castles of the Downs' (at
Walmer,
Deal, and
Sandown) for Parliament, and became Deal Castle's captain 1648-53.
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