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Encyclopedia Britannica



CAVENDISH

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 581 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CAVENDISH [CANDISH1,
THOMAS
  (1555?-1592), the third circumnavigator of the globe, was born at Trimley St Martin, Suffolk. On quitting Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge
  (without a degree), he almost ruined himself by his .extravagance as a courtier. To repair his fortune he turned to maritime and colonial enterprise, and in 1585 accompanied Sir Richard Grenville to America. Soon returning to England, he undertook an elaborate imitation of Drake's
great
  voyage. On the 21st of July 1586, he sailed from Plymouth with 123 men in three vessels, only one of which (the " Desire," of 140 tons) came
home
 . By way of Sierra Leone, the Cape Verde Islands and C. Frio in Brazil, he coasted down to Patagonia (where he discovered " Port Desire," his only important contribution to knowledge), and passing through Magellan's Straits, fell upon the Spanish settlements and shipping on the west coast of South and Central America and of
Mexico
 . Among his prizes were nineteen vessels of worth, and especially the treasure-galleon, the "
Great
  St Anne," which he captured off Cape St Lucas, the southern extremity of California (November 14, 1587). After this success he struck across the Pacific for
home
 ; touched at the Ladrones, Philippines, Moluccas and Java; rounded the Cape 4f Good
Hope
 ; and arrived again at Plymouth (September 9-10, 1588), having circumnavigated the globe in two years and fifty days. It is said that his sailors were clothed in silk, his sails were damask, and his top-mast covered with cloth of gold. Yet by 1591 he was again in difficulties, and planned a fresh American and Pacific venture. John Davis (q.v.) accompanied him, bait the voyage (undertaken with five vessels) was an utter failure,much of the fault lying with Cavendish himself, who falsely accused Davis, with his last breath, of deserting him (May 20, 1592). He died and was buried at sea, on the way home, in the summer of 1592.
See Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, (a) edition of 1589, p. 809 (N. H.'s narrative of the voyage of 15861588) ; (b) edition of 1599-1600, vol. iii. pp. 803-825 (Francis Pretty's narrative of the same); (c) edition of 15991600, vol. iii. pp. 251-253 (on the venture of 1585) ; (d) edition of 15991600, vol. iii. pp. 845-852 (John Lane's narrative of the last voyage, of 15911592) ; also Stationers' Registers (
Arber
 ), vol. ii. pp. 505-509; the Molyneux Globe of 1592, in the library of the Middle Temple, London, and the Ballads in Biog. Brit., vol. i. p. 1196.


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