Richard Grenville’s Death – Cause and Date

The politician Richard Grenville died at the age of 49. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

English soldier, politician, and explorer who helped to colonize the New World and died fighting the Spanish Armada in the Battle of Flores.

He served as Sheriff of Cork and later of Cornwall, and he represented Cornwall in Parliament

His final battle with the Spanish Armada was immortalized in The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet, a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson that takes its name from the ship he sailed.