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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.
May 26, 2017 · Edward Maria Wingfield was a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia, a group of Jamestown settlers appointed by the company to make local decisions for the colony.
Aug 5, 2023 · Biography. Edward Wingfield MP is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society. He was the eldest son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, the Elder, and Margaret (née Kaye; from Woodsome, Yorkshire). His father died when he was seven years old.
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.
CAPTAIN EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD. Born about 1560, Son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, M.P, of Huntingdonshire, and Grandson of Sir Richard Wingfield, K.G, of Kimbolton Castle. A Valiant Soldier in Ireland and in the Netherlands.
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.
WINGFIELD'S DISCOURSE OF VIRGINIA, 1607–8. “A DISCOURSE OF VIRGINIA.” BY EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD, THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE COLONY. Now first printed from the Original Manuscript in the Lambeth Library. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, BY CHARLES DEANE, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AND OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL ...
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.
This is the title page of Edward Maria Wingfield's A Discourse of Virginia, an account of his experiences as a founding member of Jamestown as well as a defense of his leadership of the Council of Virginia. Wingfield originally wrote his text after returning to England in 1608.
Sep 29, 2021 · Virginia's true founder : Edward-Maria Wingfield and his times, 1550-c.1614 : the first biography of the first president of the first successful English colony in the New World. Wingfield, Edward-Maria, 1550-approximately 1614. Discourse of Virginia. 1993.
