The colony was called " Lygonia " after Cecily Lygon, mother of New England Council president Sir Ferdinando Gorges.

* At the behest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Dr. Richard Vines, a physician, passes the winter of 1616 — 17 at Biddeford, Maine, at the mouth of the Saco River, that he calls Winter Harbor.

* 23 July-After a court battle, King Charles I handed over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.

First settled as early as 1623, the southern part of Kittery was once called Champernowne's after Sir Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind settlement north of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In 1908, York Harbor proposed secession from York, first as a new town called Yorktown, then as Gorges after Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the early proprietor of Maine.

* Sir Ferdinando Tuchet K. B., who married widow of Sir John Rodney.

They are much incensed and provoked against the English, and about eight months ago slew three Englishmen, and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monchiggon ; they were Sir Ferdinando Gorges his men, as this savage told us, as he did likewise of the huggery, that is, fight, that our discoverers had with the Nausets, and of our tools that were taken out of the woods, which we willed him should be brought again, otherwise, we would right ourselves.

Other financiers included Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the military governor of Plymouth ; much of the information about the events in the colony comes from his letters and memoirs.

* Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the Province of Maine

He married Frances Dudley, 6th Baroness Dudley, daughter of Sir Ferdinando Dudley, eldest son of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley ( see the Baron Dudley for earlier history of the Sutton family ).

Permanent English settlement began after land grants were issued in 1622 to John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack and Sagadahoc ( Kennebec ) rivers, roughly encompassing present-day New Hampshire and western Maine.

After the success of the Plymouth settlement, much of the rest of the company's territory was given away in further grants to other colonial ventures, notably: the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, and the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason in 1622.

His colleague John Whitson wrote in October 1621 on the " business of Sir Ferdinando Gorges ' referring to the restraint of trade with New England as a result of articles and orders of the president and council for New England, which the merchants " in noe sorte did like ".

In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.

The colony came under legal threat in 1632, when Sir Ferdinando Gorges, attempting to revive an earlier claim to the territory, raised issues of the colony's charter and governance with the Privy Council of King Charles I.

The colony angered the king by purchasing the claims of Sir Ferdinando Gorges to portions of Maine in 1677, a territory Charles had intended to acquire for his son, the Duke of Monmouth.

Ever stoic, Popham replied that at his age, death would be “ but cutting off a few years .” However, he was rescued and rowed to safety by Sir Ferdinando Gorges ( 1565 – 1647 ).

The colony had previously governed this territory ( roughly the land between the Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers in what is now southwestern Maine ), but its right to do so had been stripped by King Charles after protests by the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who had long-standing claims to the area.

Theobald Russell " Gorges " thus established a new line of Gorges at Wraxall, where the family became well established ( see Sir Ferdinando Gorges ).

* Proprietors of Maine: John Mason, 1622 to 1635 ; Sir Ferdinando Gorges, incumbent

* Proprietor of New Somersetshire: Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 1635 – 1647

They were authorized to acquire land claims from the heirs of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason that conflicted with some Massachusetts land claims in present-day Maine.

* Anne Howard, married Sir Edmund Gorges ( d. 1512 ) of Wraxall by whom she had issue.

Haselrig was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hesilrige, 1st Baronet ( alternative spellings " Heselrig " and " Haselrigge "), of Noseley Hall, Noseley, Leicestershire, and of Frances Gorges, daughter of Sir William Gorges, of Alderton, Northamptonshire.

They were given a grant by Sir Robert Gorges, with whom they had settled at Wessagusset ( Weymouth ) in September 1623.

Fourthly, at Wraxall in 1629, Elizabeth Lady Smyth, daughter of Sir Thomas Gorges and the Marchioness of Northampton, and widow of Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.

* Sir Theobald Russell, 1303-1349, married Eleanor de Gorges, daughter of Ralph III, 1st Baron Gorges

* Sir Sackville Trevor of Wales ( 1565 – 1633 ), Sea Captain and Member of Parliament

Economically, Sir Thomas Gresham's founding of the Royal Exchange ( 1565 ), the first stock exchange in England and one of the earliest in Europe, proved to be a development of the first importance, for the economic development of England and soon for the world as a whole.

English Deputy Sir John Perrot had ordered the legal establishment of " Leitrim County " a half-century prior, in 1565.

Heslington Hall was built between 1565 and 1568 for Sir Thomas Eynns.

Sir Thomas Smith's book * De Republica Anglorum ; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, written between 1562 and 1565, was first published in 1583.

Sir Maurice Abbot ( Morris ) ( 1565 – 1642 ) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1626.

This victory greatly strengthened Shane O ' Neill's position, and Sir Henry Sidney, who became lord deputy in 1565, declared to the earl of Leicester that Lucifer himself was not more puffed up with pride and ambition than O ' Neill.

Sir Anthony Shirley ( or Sherley ) ( 1565 – 1635 ) was an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the British House of Commons to assert one of its privileges — freedom of its members from arrest — in a document known as The Form of Apology and Satisfaction.

The title of Charlemont descended from Sir Toby Caulfeild ( 1565 – 1627 ) of Oxfordshire, England, who was given lands in Ireland, and created Baron Charlemont ( the name of a fort on the Blackwater ), for his services to King James I in 1620.

The Royal Exchange in the City of London was founded in 1565 by Sir Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the city.

* Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet ( 1565 – 1641 )

Sir Francis Tanfield ( born 1565, date of death unknown ) was Proprietary Governor of the South Falkland colony ( in modern Newfoundland ) of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, his cousin's husband.

Mary, Queen of Scots ( reigned 1542 – 1567 ) first visited Loch Leven in 1565 as a guest of Sir William Douglas of Lochleven ( d. 1606 ).

Aylestone remained in the hands of the Vernon family until the death of Sir George Vernon in 1565.

* Dictionary of National Biography, Dudley, Sir Henry ( d 1565?

Sir George Vernon ( c. 1503 – August 31, 1565 ) had two daughters, Margaret and Dorothy.

* Sir Thomas Monson, 1st Baronet ( 1565 – 1641 ), English politician

Sir Henry commissioned the building of a new Tudor Hall on Costessey Park, beginning his residency there in 1565.

* Sir Nicholas Arnold ( 1564 – 1565 )

Sir Thomas Chaloner ( 1521 – 14 October 1565 ) was an English statesman and poet.

* Sir Francis Knollys in 1565

* Sir Hugh Hamersley ( 1565 – 1636 ), 17th century businessman and Lord Mayor of London

Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh ( 16 April 1565 – c. 1647 ), née Throckmorton, was Sir Walter Raleigh's wife, and a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England.