Amyas Preston
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Amyas Preston (died 1609) was an English privateer of the Elizabethan period.
Preston came from Cricket St Thomas in Somerset. He took part in the Preston Somers Expedition in 1595.
The hero character Amyas Leigh in Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! is based on Amyas Preston.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ "George Somers, Amyas Preston and the Burning of Caracas - The Bermudian Magazine". The Bermudian. 13 June 2013.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 46. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Categories:
- People from Somerset
- 1609 deaths
- 16th-century births
- English privateers
- English people of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
- English people stubs