White, John

White, John
flourished 1585–93

British artist, explorer, and North American colonist.

He sailed on an expedition to Greenland in 1577 and returned to England with sketches of the land and its people. His 1585 trip to colonize Roanoke was sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh. White's paintings and sketches illustrated a report of the region after the colony was abandoned (1586). He was appointed governor of a second colony and arrived at Roanoke with 100 colonists (1587). He returned to England for supplies that year but was unable to send a relief expedition to Roanoke until 1590; the expedition found no trace of the colonists, including White's granddaughter, Virginia Dare.

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▪ British artist and explorer
died c. 1593, , Kylemore, County Galway, Ire.

      British artist, explorer, cartographer, and governor of the English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.).

      In May 1577 White sailed on the ship Aid as part of an expedition to America commanded by Martin Frobisher. The expedition, sponsored by the Cathay Company in its search for precious metals and a northwest passage to Asia, sailed to Greenland and Baffin Island before returning to England in September 1577. The expedition discovered neither a northwest passage nor precious metals, but White drew some illuminating sketches of the lands and people encountered on the voyage.

      In April 1585 White sailed on an expedition sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commanded by Sir Richard Grenville that planted a settlement in July on Roanoke Island. White executed many paintings and sketches of the lands, native peoples, flora, and fauna of the region, and 23 of his paintings were used later to illustrate Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. The colony, under the governorship of Ralph Lane, was abandoned in June 1586, and White returned to England.

      In May 1587 White sailed with more than 100 colonists as governor of a second colony that Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to found in North America. The colony was established on Roanoke Island that July, but on Aug. 25, 1587, White returned to England. He arrived there in November, but, because of the approaching war with Spain, he was unable to secure a relief expedition immediately. When the expedition arrived at the island in August 1590, they found no trace of any colonists, including White's daughter and his granddaughter, Virginia Dare (Dare, Virginia) (q.v.). White retired to a home in Ireland. In February 1593 he wrote an account of his final voyage to Virginia.

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