Thomas Cavendish
ENGLISH EXPLORER AND PRIVATEER (1560-1592)
Cavendish, Thomas; Thomas Candish; Tomas Cavendish; Sir Thomas Cavendish
Sir Thomas Cavendish (19 September 1560Judkins, 2003 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. Magellan's, Loaisa's, Drake's, and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe.