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Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield (1550 in Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton – 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richard Wingfield.
May 26, 2017 · Edward Maria Wingfield was a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia, a group of Jamestown settlers appointed by the company to make local decisions for the colony.
CAPTAIN EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD. Born about 1560, Son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, M.P, of Huntingdonshire, and Grandson of Sir Richard Wingfield, K.G, of Kimbolton Castle. A Valiant Soldier in Ireland and in the Netherlands.
Edward-Maria Wingfield was the only member of the Virginia Company’s leaders to go to Jamestown to oversee his investment and became the colony’s first president. Wingfield came from wealthy stock in England and served in the military in Holland and Ireland.
Although Edward Maria Wingfield is well known by reason of his part in the settlement of Virginia, he has not previously been identified with the ‘Edward Wingfeild esquire’ who sat in the Parliament of 1593.
Contents. Edward-Maria Wingfield. English businessman and colonist. Learn about this topic in these articles: history of Jamestown Colony. In Jamestown Colony: Origins (1606–07)
Sep 29, 2021 · Virginia's true founder : Edward-Maria Wingfield and his times, 1550-c.1614 : the first biography of the first president of the first successful English colony in the New World. Wingfield, Edward-Maria, 1550-approximately 1614. Discourse of Virginia. 1993.
