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SIR HENRY KILLIGREW (d. 1603)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:KILLIGREW (d. 1603)  , See also:English diplomatist, belonged to an old Cornish See also:family and became member of See also:parliament for See also:Launceston in 1553 . Having lived abroad ' The word dotterel seems properly applicable to a single See also:species only, the Charadrius morinellus of See also:Linnaeus, which, from some of its osteological characters, may be fitly regarded as the type of a distinct genus, Eudromias . Whether any other species agree with it in the peculiarity alluded to is at See also:present uncertain . 2 A single example is said to have been shot near See also:Christchurch, in See also:Hampshire, See also:England, in See also:April 1857 (See also:Ibis, 1862, p . 276) . during the whole or See also:part of See also:Mary's reign, he returned to England See also:Killigrew enjoyed a greater reputation as a wit than as a dramatist. when See also:Elizabeth came to the See also:throne and at once began to serve the new See also:queen as a diplomatist . He was employed on a See also:mission to See also:Germany, and in conducting negotiations in See also:Scotland, where he had several interviews with Mary Queen of Scots . He was knighted in 1591, and after other See also:diplomatic See also:missions in various parts of See also:Europe he died See also:early in 1603 . Many of See also:Sir See also:Henry's letters on public matters are in the See also:Record See also:Office, See also:London, and in the See also:British Museum . His first wife, See also:Catherine (c . 1530-1583), daughter of Sir See also:Anthony See also:Cooke (1504-1576), See also:tutor to See also:Edward VI., was a See also:lady of See also:talent . Another celebrated member of this family was Sir See also:ROBERT KILLIGREW (c .

1579-1633), who was knighted by See also:

James I. in the same See also:year (1603) as his See also:father, Sir See also:William Killigrew . Sir William was an officer in Queen Elizabeth's See also:household and a member of parliament; he died in See also:November 1622 . Sir Robert was a member of all the parliaments between 1603 and his See also:death, but he came more into prominence owing to his alleged connexion with the death of Sir See also:Thomas See also:Overbury . A See also:man of some scientific knowledge, he had been in the See also:habit of supplying powders to Robert Carr, See also:earl of See also:Somerset, but it is not certain that the fatal See also:powder came from the hands of Killigrew . He died early in 1633, leaving five sons, three of whom attained some reputation (see below) .

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