Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (* June 5, 1587, † April 19, 1658 in London ) was an English colonial administrator, admiral, and puritan.
Career
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Warwick and his wife Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, inherited his father's title ( Earl of Warwick ) 1619th One of his younger brothers was Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland ( 1590-1649 ). Robert developed an early interest in colonial enterprises, so that he participated in the Guinea, New England and Virginia Companies, as well as the subsidiary of the Virginia Company, the Somers Isles Company. Warwick enterprises involved him in clashes with the British East India Company ( 1617) and with the Virginia Company, which was in 1624 displaced as a result of his action. In 1627 he commanded a botched Kapererfeldzug against the Spaniards.
Warwick Puritan relations and goodwill gradually alienated him from the court, however, promoted its association with the New England colonies. In 1628 he mediated indirectly the patent for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1631 he granted the patent in Saybrook Connecticut. In the same year he was forced to resign as president of the New England Company, however, continued the Somers Isles Company and the Providence Iceland Company, which was founded in 1630, the Old Providence managed on the Miskito coast. Meanwhile Warwick in England opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of Ship Money, and Laud's ecclesiastical policy.
His Richneck Plantation was where is now the Independent City of Newport News, Virginia. The Warwick River, Warwick Towne, of Warwick River Shire and the Warwick County, Virginia have all been named after him, as well as Warwick, Rhode Iceland and the Warwick Parish, Bermuda (alias The Somers Isles ). The oldest school in Bermuda, Warwick Academy, was built on the previously established by him available land in Warwick Parish. The classes began there in the 1650s, the official opening took place in 1662.
After Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, Admiral in 1642 was dismissed as Lord High, Warwick was appointed by the Parliament of England to the fleet commander. In this position, Warwick took during the Second English Civil War, the Castles of the Downs ( at Walmer, Deal and Sandown ) for Parliament and was Deal Castle 's captain ( 1648-1653 ).