William Strachey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Strachey

English writer

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1572

Place of Birth: Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1621

Profession: historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 21 June 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America.
He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane while sailing to Virginia.
The survivors eventually reached Virginia after building two small ships during the ten months they spent on the island.
His account of the incident and of the Virginia colony is thought by most Shakespearean scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play The Tempest.