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Richard Chancellor

1521 - 1556

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Richard Chancellor (c. 1521 – 10 November 1556) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Chancellor is the 277th most popular explorer (up from 278th in 2019), the 2,452nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,229th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Richard Chancellor ranks 277 out of 498. Before him are Hjalmar Johansen, Aleksei Chirikov, Pyotr Kozlov, Grigory Shelikhov, Charles Wilkes, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. After him are László Almásy, William Smith, Pierre Poivre, Willem de Vlamingh, Estêvão Gomes, and Ludwig Leichhardt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1521, Richard Chancellor ranks 11. Before him are Maurice, Elector of Saxony, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu, Andrew Avellino, Xu Wei, and Antoine Caron. After him are Philippe de Monte, and Francesco Laparelli. Among people deceased in 1556, Richard Chancellor ranks 13. Before him are Martin Agricola, Frederick II, Elector Palatine, Maximus the Greek, Saitō Dōsan, Luigi Alamanni, and Tullia d'Aragona. After him are Giovanni della Casa, Luca Ghini, Francesco Venier, Domingo Martínez de Irala, Konrad Pellikan, and Hemu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Chancellor ranks 2,453 out of 8,785. Before him are Agnes Baden-Powell (1858), Allan Holdsworth (1946), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Graham Nash (1942), Brian Robertson (1956), and Lesley Manville (1956). After him are David Gill (1843), Arthur Holmes (1890), John Cleland (1709), Gavin Rossdale (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), and Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Richard Chancellor ranks 33. Before him are John Marshall (1748), James Bruce (1730), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Douglas Mawson (1882), John Rolfe (1585), and Mark Sykes (1879). After him are William Smith (1790), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), John Byron (1723), Lady Hester Stanhope (1776), John McDouall Stuart (1815), and Alexander Gordon Laing (1794).

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