Richard Chancellor
| Richard Chancellor | |
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| Birthplace | Bristol |
Chancellor, Richard
Date of birth unknown; died Nov. 10, 1556, off the coast of Scotland. British navigator.
In 1553, Chancellor commanded one of the three ships in H. Willoughby’s expedition, which had been sent by an English trading company to search for a northeast passage to India. Chancellor rounded the northern part of the Scandinavian and Kola peninsulas and sailed to the mouth of the Severnaia Dvina. He was received in Moscow by Ivan IV. After obtaining a charter for free trade with Muscovy, he left the city in March 1554. An account of the expedition was written by C. Adams, one of Chancellor’s companions.
In 1555, Chancellor visited Moscow a second time. On the return voyage he perished during a storm.
REFERENCES
Angliiskie puteshestvenniki v Moskovskom gosudarstve v XVI veke. Leningrad, 1937.Magidovich, I. P., and V. I. Magidovich. Istoriia otkrytiia i issledovaniia Evropy. Moscow, 1970.