• Source: Robert Rich (Bermuda settler)

Lord Robert Rich (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Richard Rich) (b. c. 1585 - d. 1630) was an English soldier and traveler.
Robert aspired to colonize Virginia, and set out in 1609 to the Jamestown, Virginia settlement. During the journey, a tropical storm caused the ship, the Sea Venture to be run aground on the reefs of the uninhabited St. George's Island, Bermuda. Along with Rich, George Somers, Thomas Gates, William Strachey, Silvester Jourdain, and other settlers were castaways.

Robert Rich wrote a "verse pamphlet", "Newes from Virginia: the lost flocke triumphant." Along with the writings of William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain, became well known in England by 1610, when Thomas Gates and Christopher Newport retold the saga in London. In 1865 this work was rediscovered in a Viscount Charlemont library in Ireland by Shakespeare researcher John O. Halliwell. Halliwell printed a small amount of copies for distribution.
Raised with a strong pious outlook, he and his brother (Nathaniel Rich, board member of the Somers Isles Company) were allies to the Puritans and to his cousin, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
Robert Rich returned to Bermuda in 1616 or 1617, and died there in 1630.




See also


Rich family
Grandfather Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
Uncle Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick
Cousin Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Brother Nathaniel Rich (merchant adventurer)
Nephew Nathaniel Rich (soldier)
True Reportory
Richneck Plantation




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References

Attributions

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rich, Richard" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
"Rich, Nathaniel (1585?-1636)" . Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900 – via Wikisource.




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