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Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richard Wingfield.
- 1631 (aged 81), Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England
May 26, 2017 · Learn about Edward Maria Wingfield, a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia. Explore his early life, military career, colonization efforts, and disputes with John Smith.
Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield, of Stonely Priory near Huntingdon, born 1550, a distinguished soldier in the Low Countries and Ireland. One of the Big Eight named in the 1606 Virginia Charter. In 1607 the Founding Father of Jamestown, Virginia. Crews alias Cruwys, Gamaliel, of Swaffham, Norfolk.
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Edward-Maria Wingfield was the only member of the Virginia Company’s leaders to go to Jamestown to oversee his investment and became the colony’s first president. Wingfield came from wealthy stock in England and served in the military in Holland and Ireland.
history of Jamestown Colony. …initiators of the Virginia Company; Edward-Maria Wingfield, a major investor; John Ratcliffe; George Kendall; John Martin; and Capt. John Smith, a former mercenary who had fought in the Netherlands and Hungary. Wingfield became the colony’s first president.
Although Edward Maria Wingfield is well known by reason of his part in the settlement of Virginia, he has not previously been identified with the ‘Edward Wingfeild esquire’ who sat in the Parliament of 1593.
A Discourse of Virginia is a manuscript by Wingfield, a founding member of Jamestown, who defended his leadership of the Council of Virginia. The text was written in 1608 and published in 1860 by Charles Deane.
