Champernowne
Sir John Champernowne
[or Camperon],
mar
Margaret Courtenay [born 1459,
descendant of
Edward I]
and had issue:
Sir Philip Champernowne, of Modbury, Devon, born 1495,
mar Katherine Carew
[descendant of Edward I]
and had issue:
- Catherine Champernowne, or Catharine,
born 1519,
mar 1stly to Otto Gilbert and had issue:
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(and here),
adventurer and explorer.
mar 2ndly to Sir Walter Ralegh
and had issue:
- Sir Walter Raleigh
(see here),
or Ralegh,
born 1552,
mar 1591 to Bessy Throckmorton
[born 1565] and had issue,
posed the mathematical problem now known as
Kepler's conjecture,
in his History of the World he was
a pioneer in
dating the world according to evidence
rather than mythology,
wrote in favour of free trade, low customs duties, low protectionism;
he was an early advocate of
globalisation
- that self-sufficiency might make
a country less, not more, prosperous,
executed 1618, age 66 yrs,
Bessy died 1647, age 82 yrs.
- Joan Champernowne, born est c.1520,
mar Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Denny, Knt
[born 1501]
and had issue.
- Raleigh, NC,
is named after Sir Walter Raleigh.