Thomas Eldred (1561–1624) was an

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merchant and mariner.Thomas Eldred's biography

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. Retrieved 28 February 2010.Thomas Eldred's blue plaque
The Ipswich Society. Retrieved 28 February 2010. He is notable for having sailed with

Thomas Cavendish Sir Thomas Cavendish (1560 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and retu ...

on the ship ''Desire'', during the second English circumnavigation of the globe between 1586 and 1588. He lived at 97 Fore Street, Ipswich, and was commemorated by a pub with his name, until it was removed in 2012. He was buried in the churchyard of St Clement's Church.

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