Henry Strangways (pirate)

Henry Strangways , also sometimes known as Strangwish, was an English Gentleman Pirate who attacked Spanish and other shipping. He was repeatedly imprisoned, and pardoned by highly placed friends, during his approximately eightyear piratical career, from about 1552 to 1560. His portrait painted by a fellow prisoner, Gerlach Flicke, resides today in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Strangways was born in Dorset to a wellknown family of good standing, thus he is sometimes referred to as a Gentleman Pirate.

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