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18 the main part in establishing an English colony in Virginia, he aided and promoted many voyages to find a northwest passage to India—Henry Hudson's in 1610, Jonas Poole's in 1611, Captain Button's in 1612, Robert Fotherbie's in 1615, Robert Bileth and William Baffin's in 1616, when "Smith's Sound" was discovered and named for him. Indeed, his name was engrafted everywhere upon land and water beyond perhaps that of any other Englishman. He was besides the patron of many men of science, and his gifts and bequests were very numerous. He married three times, his third wife being Sarah, daughter of William Blount, Esq., by whom he had two sons—Thomas and John Smythe. The line of the former ended with the accomplished geographer the Eighth Viscount Strangford, who died in 1869, and the line of the latter expired with Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, chief baron of the exchequer in 1772. The family always wrote the name Smythe, though it is generally rendered Smith. A portrait belonging to the Skinner's Company has been identified with Sir Thomas Smythe.

Newport, Capt. Christopher. A Founder, (q. v.).

Wingfield, Edward Maria. A Founder. (q. v. ).

Ratcliffe, John. A Founder. (q. v.).

Smith, Captain John. A Founder. (q. v.).

'''Percey. George'''. A Founder. (q. v.).

Gates, Sir Thomas. A Founder. (q. v.).

Somers, Sir George. A Founder. (q. v.).

Dale, Sir Thomas. A Founder. (q. v.).

West, Sir Thomas, Lord Delaware. A Founder. (q. v.).

Argall, Sir Samuel. A Founder. (q. v.).

Yardley, Sir George. A Founder. (q. v.).

Symonds, Rev. William, born in Oxfordshire about 1557, educated at Magdalene College, Oxford, and in 1579 a fellow thereof. About this time he received a curacy, the gift of Captain John Smith's friend. Lord Willoughby, at Hatton Holgate, in the Diocese of Lincoln. He preached the first sermon before the Virginia Company of London, April 25, 1609. He revised Smith's "Map of Virginia and Annexed Relation," which was published at Oxford in 1612.

Crashaw, Rev. William, a member of the Virginia Company, an eloquent preacher sometimes classed as a Puritan divine and poet; was baptized at Handsworth, October 26, 1572, educated at Cambridge; prebend of the church of Ripon, 1604; preacher at the Inner Temple, London; at church of St. Mary MatfelonMatfellon [sic], of White Chapel, London, November 13, 1618; died in 1626. He was father of the poet, Richard Crashaw, a Roman Catholic. In February, 1610, he preached before Lord Delaware and the London Company an eloquent sermon defending the character of the settlers against malicious imputations, and praising the objects of the Virginia enterprise.

Sandys, Sir Edwin, second treasurer of the Virginia Company, second son of Dr. Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York, by Ciceley, sister of Sir Thomas Wilford, was born December 9, 1561; educated at Corpus Christi College; B. A. October 16, 1579, and M. A. June 5, 1583. He was collated to the prebend of Wetwang in the Cathedral of York, and in 1589 was admitted a student of the Middle Temple.

On October 13. 1586, Sandys entered