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

1579-1633), who was knighted by

James I. in the same
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year (1603) as his
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father, Sir William Killigrew . Sir William was an officer in Queen Elizabeth's household and a member of parliament; he died in November 1622 . Sir Robert was a member of all the parliaments between 1603 and his
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death, but he came more into prominence owing to his alleged connexion with the death of Sir Thomas Overbury . A man of some scientific knowledge, he had been in the habit of supplying powders to Robert Carr,
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earl of Somerset, but it is not certain that the fatal 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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