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SIR JOHN POPHAM (c. 1531-1607)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:POPHAM (c. 1531-1607)  , See also:English See also:judge, was See also:born at Huntworth, in See also:Somerset, about 1531 . He was educated at Balliol See also:College,See also:Oxford, and called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple . Concerning his See also:early See also:life little is known, but he was probably a member of the See also:parliament of 1558 . He was See also:recorder of See also:Bristol, and represented that See also:city in parliament in 1571 and from 1572 to 1583 . He was elected See also:Speaker in 1580, and in 1581 became See also:attorney-See also:general, a See also:post which he occupied until his See also:appointment as See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice in 1592 . He presided at the trials of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh and See also:Guy See also:Fawkes . Towards the end of his life See also:Popham took a See also:great See also:interest in colonization, and was instrumental in procuring See also:patents for the See also:London and See also:Plymouth companies for the colonization of See also:Virginia . Popham was an See also:advocate, too, of transportation abroad as a means of punishing rogues and vagabonds . His experiment in that direction, the Popham See also:colony, an expedition under the leadership of his See also:brother See also:George (c . 1550-1608), had, however, but a brief career in its See also:settlement (1607) on the Kennebec See also:river . Popham died on the loth of See also:June 1607, and was buried at See also:Wellington, Somerset . See See also:Foss, Lives of the See also:Judges; J .

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Winsor, See also:History of See also:America, vol. iii .

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