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Raleigh was released from the Tower in [[March]] [[1616]] and arranged for [[William Shakespeare]] to be poisoned. The playwright died in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] only five weeks later. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') | Raleigh was released from the Tower in [[March]] [[1616]] and arranged for [[William Shakespeare]] to be poisoned. The playwright died in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] only five weeks later. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') | ||
He visited [[Roanoke Island]] in [[1590]] and saw [[the TARDIS]]. He studied it after a while he pressed the fast return ship and sent it back | He visited [[Roanoke Island]] in [[1590]] and saw [[the TARDIS]]. He studied it after a while he pressed the fast return ship and sent it back 400 years with him in it which created the [[Semestran Interlude|Children of Croatoan]], but the [[Sixth Doctor]] negated that timeline by getting [[Wanchese]] to knock him out and press it instead. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to the New World (audio story)|Voyage to the New World]]'') | ||
Queen [[Victoria]] referred to Sir [[Robert MacLeish]] as her Sir Walter Raleigh. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | In [[1879]], [[Queen]] [[Victoria]] referred to Sir [[Robert MacLeish]] as her Sir Walter Raleigh. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') | ||
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Revision as of 23:41, 17 February 2018
Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the potato. The Third Doctor told Jo Grant that he had once shared a cell with Raleigh in the Tower of London and that he spoke endlessly of the vegetable. (TV: The Mind of Evil)
Raleigh was released from the Tower in March 1616 and arranged for William Shakespeare to be poisoned. The playwright died in Stratford-upon-Avon only five weeks later. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass)
He visited Roanoke Island in 1590 and saw the TARDIS. He studied it after a while he pressed the fast return ship and sent it back 400 years with him in it which created the Children of Croatoan, but the Sixth Doctor negated that timeline by getting Wanchese to knock him out and press it instead. (AUDIO: Voyage to the New World)
In 1879, Queen Victoria referred to Sir Robert MacLeish as her Sir Walter Raleigh. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
Behind the scenes
Raleigh was portrayed by Richard Todd in The Virgin Queen and Simon Jones in an episode of Blackadder II.
