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Sir Walter Raleigh

Walter was also born in East Budleigh about 40 years before Roger Conant
Walter's statue in East Budleigh
Did Roger meet Sir Walter Raleigh?
Engraving of Roger Conant meeting Sir Walter Raleigh. Conant family tradition says that as a boy young Roger met Sir Walter Raleigh. Image credit: www.lyndon-estate.co.uk
As a boy, Walter Raleigh listened to many exciting tales of the high seas by Jose Luis Salinas
House where Walter was born
Room where Walter was born
Kitchen in Walter's House.
Sir Walter Raleigh Pub in East Budleigh
Still in Business. See pub's website A Conant Dinner is scheduled to take place in East Budleigh on the evening of 12 May 2023. As a descendant of Roger Conant you would be most welcome if you could attend this event. The Dinner will take place in the Sir Walter Raleigh pub, pictured here.
Walter's Queen and King
Knighted Sir Walter Raleigh
Beheaded Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter's Execution
Roger may have attended the beheading of Sir Walter Raleigh on Oct 29th, 1618 in London, about 2 weeks before Roger's wedding also in London.
Raleigh was beheaded in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster on 29 October 1618. "Let us dispatch", he said to his executioner. "At this hour my ague comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quaked from fear." After he was allowed to see the axe that would be used to behead him, he mused: "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries." According to biographers, Raleigh's last words, spoken to the hesitating executioner, were: "What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!" According to legend, this stanza was written on the night before Walter’s execution. Even such is time, which takes in trustOur youth, our joys, and all we have,And pays us but with age and dust,Who in the dark and silent graveWhen we have wandered all our waysShuts up the story of our days,And from which earth, and grave, and dustThe Lord will raise me up, I trust
Sir Walter Raleigh eloped with Bess Throckmorton (Queen's lady-in-waiting, which angered Elizabeth) Bess never remarried after his death and kept his head in a leather bag
Icarus and Walter flew too high and fell to earth and perished. Hubris is dangerous.