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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Exmouth, People from East Devon (district), Walter Raleigh, Mary King, East Devon local elections, Exmouth Lifeboat Station, Peter Carew, Bay FM Exmouth, John Conant, Exmouth Town F.C., Jim Causley, Richard Acland, The Barn, Exmouth, Roger Conant, John Nutt, Exmouth railway station, East Devon AONB, William Hayman Cummings, Orcombe Point, Exmouth Community College, Charles Buller Heberden, Belinda Lee, Edward Copleston, Henry Scadding, Sandy Bay, Devon, The Maer Ground, Disappearance of Genette Tate, East Devon Way, East Devon Eagles, M. R. Peacocke, James Yonge, Rolle College, Exmouth to Starcross Ferry, Littleham, Exmouth, Rockbeare, Yarcombe, Exmouth Journal, Slewton Combe, Exmouth Herald. Excerpt: Sir Walter Raleigh ( , , or rarely ; c. 1552 - 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. Little is known for certain of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in a massacre at Smerwick. Later he became a landlord of properties confiscated from the Irish rebels. He rose rapidly in Queen Elizabeth I's favour, being knighted in 1585. He was involved in the early English colonisation of Virginia under a royal patent. In 1591 he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without the Queen's permission for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of London. After his release, they retired to his estate at Sherborne, Dorset. In 1594 Raleigh heard of a "City of Gold" in South America and sailed to find it, publishing an exaggerated account of his experiences in a book that contributed to the legend of "El Dorado". After Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 Raleigh was again imprisoned in the Tower, this time for allegedly being involved in the Main Plot against King James I, who was not favourably disposed toward him. In 1616 he was released in order to conduct a second expedition in search of El Dorado. This was unsuccessful and men under his command ransacked a Spanish outpost. He returned to England and, to appease the Spanish, was arrested and executed in 1618. John Everett Millais, The Boyhood of Raleigh (1871)Little is known about Raleigh's birth. Some historians believe Raleigh was born on January 22, 1552. He grew up in the house of Hayes Barton, a farmhouse in the village of East Budleigh, not far from Budleigh Salterton, in Devon, England. He was the youngest of five sons born to Catherine Champe