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Sir Thomas Warner (1580 – 10 March 1649) was a captain in the guards of James I of England who became an explorer in the Caribbean. In 1620 he served at the brief-lived English settlement of Oyapoc in present-day Guyana of South America, which was abandoned the same year.
In Saint Kitts and Nevis: Early settlement. …Saint Kitts by settlers under Sir Thomas Warner, who, arriving from England in 1623, established the first successful English colony in the West Indies at Old Road on the west coast.
Nov 23, 2011 · Despite much initial hostility from the native Caribs of the island and the battles between would-be French and Spanish settlers, Thomas Warner persisted in his ambition to create a British settlement. Sir Thomas became the first Lieutenant Governor of the Caribbean islands. He died in March 1649 and was buried in St. Kitts’ middle island.
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Jun 22, 2019 · Father of Mary Warner; Edward Warner, 1st Governor of Antigua; Col. Philip Warner, Gov. of Antigua; Sir Thomas Warner and (Thomas) Indian Warner. Occupation: Governor of St. Kitts, Nevis, Barbados & Montserrat (1623-49), 1st Governor of Antigua (1632-35), Founded St Kitts (colony) in 1623, Coloniserr of the Leeward Islands, Governor.
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
- circa 1580
- "Lieut.Gen. of Caribbee Isles"
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
Thomas Warner was the first Englishman to formally challenge the regional hegemony of the Spanish in the islands of the Caribbean in the 1620s and establish a colony. Thomas Warner had earlier attempted to follow the lead and inspiration of Sir Walter Raleigh who waxed lyrical about the opportunities in Guiana.
Warner was appointed Parlimentary Governor of the Caribee Islands in the year 1643. After his first wife had died, he married a Kalinago woman and had many Children with her. He died on March 10, 1649, and was buried in the middle of St. Kitts. Sir Thomas Warner was said to have married four times.
Mar 20, 2023 · Thomas Warner was born in 1630 in St. Kitts to a Kalinago (i.e., Carib) mother from Dominica and an English father, Sir Thomas Warner, Governor of the island of St. Kitts. He was raised and educated in French and English in his father’s household until the age of about thirteen, when his father died.
