Somers, SIR GEORGE

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 567

Somers, SIR GEORGE (1554–1611), an English navigator, born at Lyme Regis, whose shipwreck on the Bermudas (q.v.) led to their colonisation from Virginia by him in 1611.

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