About the book
This book is a study of the career of Sir Thomas Dale, a soldier of the
late 16th and early 17th centuries who served England in the United
Netherlands against Spain, who was one of the prominent men in the
foundation of the Jamestown Colony, and who served the English East India
Company as Admiral in the East Indies.
About the Author
Dewey Scarboro is a native of Georgia, born in Atlanta in 1924. U.S.
Naval service from 1943 to 1946, with cruises in and out of Chesapeake
Bay, induced an interest in colonial America which was to influence his
university studies in history. In 1953 he was graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. degree in European
history. In 1956 began working towards a Master degree in English history
at Emory University, where he presented a thesis on the career of Sir
Thomas Dale. His research included an examination of the colonial records
of the Jamestown Colony which are preserved at the Virginia State Library
in Richmond, Virginia. It was then that he first encountered the portrait
of Sir Thomas Dale which is in the possession of the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts.
From 1956 until 1970 he was a member of the faculty of Sullins
College, in Bristol, Virginia, where he taught History and Social Science.
A sabbatical leave from teaching in 1967-68 allowed him to extend his
research into Dale’s career during a year spent in England and The
Netherlands. An affiliate membership in the Institute of Historical
Research at the University of London enabled him to examine the records of
the High Court of Admiralty and the Calendar of State Papers in the
British Public Records Office, which helped to illuminate the activities
of Sir Thomas Dale as Admiral of the English East India Company following
his service in Virginia.
In 1970 Dewey Scarboro moved to England to pursue his career as a
teacher. He retired from teaching in 1981 and now resides in
Gloucestershire with his wife Gill.
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