Richard Hakluyt Memorial Bristol Cathedral
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Bristol Cathedral memorial to Bristol Prebend Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616), “the father of English colonialism”; Hakluyt inspired Bristol’s merchants to get involved in the Americas and suggested that the colonies could act as “prisons without walls” for Bristol’s miscreants. Public domain.