See also: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
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
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
.
See also:Winsor, See also:History of See also:America, vol. iii
.
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