Herefordshire Through Time
Herefordshire Through Time
Herefordshire produced three eminent geographers during the 16th century.
Robert Hues, a mathematician and geographer, was born at Little Hereford about 1553, and died in 1632.
Robert Masters, an explorer, died in 1619 and is buried in Burghill Church.
Both Hues and Masters took part in Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation of the globe, which took from 1586 to 1588. This was the first circumnavigation since Sir Francis Drake's in 1577-80.
Another geographer born in Herefordshire, Richard Hakluytt, published an appeal for greater English overseas exploration in "Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America" in 1582.
[Original author: Toria Forsyth-Moser, 2003]