Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer Finish:Single showing bottles

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'Grand Conventional Festival of the Britons'

c 1925-c1930

2nd October 1971

Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer Finish:Single showing bottlesSir Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, courtier, adventurer and explorer, (1825). Raleigh (1554 1618) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585. In 1584 1589 he was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a colony in North America, but did introduce tobacco and the potato to Britain from the New World. Accused of treason by Elizabeth's successor, James I, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to