Hakluyt, Richard

Hakluyt, Richard (about 1552-1616), writer, b. Herefordshire, England.

Richard Hakluyt (pronounced Haklit) was a clergyman and also a teacher of geography.

He talked with sailors about their voyages and wrote accounts of these in Principall Navigations, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, published in 1589.

He also wrote Divers Voyages touching the Discovery of America (1582).

For some years Hakluyt was an archdeacon at Westminster Abbey and he is buried there.

Many stories by Hakluyt are included in J. Hampden (editor) New Worlds Ahead: stories of Tudor and Stuart voyages.

See Peter C. Mancall Hakluyt's Promise