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  1. Charles William Barkley. For other people named Charles Barkley, see Charles Barkley (disambiguation). Charles William Barkley (1759 – 16 May 1832) was a ship captain and maritime fur trader. He was born in Hertford, England, son of Charles Barkley. [1]

  2. BARKLEY, CHARLES WILLIAM, ship’s captain and fur trader; b. 1759, son of Charles Barkley; d. 16 May 1832 in Hertford, England. At age 11, Charles William Barkley went to sea with his father, commander of the East India Company’s ship Pacific. After his first voyage Barkley sailed to the West Indies in the merchantman Betsy but returned to ...

  3. May 23, 2024 · Charles Barkley (born February 20, 1963, Leeds, Alabama, U.S.) is a former professional basketball player whose larger-than-life character made him one of the most popular figures in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. Over the course of his 16-year NBA career, Barkley became the fourth player to amass 20,000 points, 10,000 rebounds ...

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  4. Captain Charles William Barkley was a sailor and trader who began his career at 11 when he sailed under his father's command on an East India Company voyage. 1 By 1786, Barkley sailed from Ostend, Belgium, in the Imperial Eagle, bound for the Pacific Northwest. 2 Just prior to the departure, Barkley married Frances Hornby Trevor who joined him on the sojourn. 3 They reached Nootka Sound in ...

  5. Charles William Barkley, an English captain sailing in the Imperial Eagle under an Austrian flag, had discovered (or rediscovered) the strait just two years earlier. He had named it for a Greek captain, Apostolas Valerianos, who had claimed he entered a passage in that latitude in 1592 while sailing for Spain under the name Juan de Fuca. 10

  6. Less than ten years later, in 1787, Captain Charles William Barkley (sometimes spelled Berkeley or Barclay) commanded the fur trading vessel, the Imperial Eagle, when he made positive identification of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Francis Hornby Barkley, Captain Barkley's wife, is believed to have been the first woman to visit this part of the ...

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  8. Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT and CBS Sports.

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