Title: Blomfields Norfolk p 63 Vol IX - RJCW Ref 152
Cambridge Alumni Adm. Fell.-Com. at EMMANUEL, June 4, 1603. S. and h. of Robert (above), 1st Earl of Warwick. Matric. 1603; M.A. 1624. Incorp. at Oxford, 1624. K.B., 1603. Adm. at the Inner Temple, 1604. M.P. for Maldon, 1610-1; for Essex, 1614. Succeeded as 2nd Earl, Mar. 24, 1618-9. Parliamentarian. Privy Councillor, 1641. Lord High Admiral, 1643-5. Occupied himself with the colonisation of America and with privateering ventures. Associated with the foundation of the Colonies of New Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Governor of Guernsey, 1645. A member of Cromwell's Upper House, 1657-8. Married three wives. Died Apr. 19, 1658. Buried at Felsted, Essex. Brother of Henry (1603), father of the next and Hatton (1639). (D.N.B.; G.E.C.; Vis. of Essex, 1612.)
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Robert Rich ...The Providence Company or Providence Island Company was an English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritan investors including Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick[1] in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island in the Caribbean and on the Mosquito Coast of what became Nicaragua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Island_Company
Oliver St John St_John-544 was legal advisor to said company.
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