The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Pory (bap. 1572 - 1633)
Colonial administrator, traveller, and writer. He served as secretary of the colony of Virginia and the first speaker of its General Assembly. Pory was assistant to Richard Hakluyt, who "encouraged him in the study of cosmography" and urged Pory to publish his translation of A Geographical Historie of Africa, Written in Arabicke and Italian by John Leo, a More (1601) (DNB). Pory's interest in global geography was further expressed in his 1602 edition of An Epitome of Ortelius his Theatre of the World. Ortelius, incidentally, was a collector of curiosities with connections to the Lime Street community through his son-in-law James Cole, who inherited and displayed Ortelius’s collection on Lime Street.In the first decade of the seventeenth century, his patrons were Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury, and Sir Walter Cope, whom John Chamberlain termed his 'great-master' (Letters of John Chamberlain, 1.279). Among his early correspondents were Robert Cotton.
In Paris in January 1612, he delivered to historian Jacques Auguste de Thou some "materials collected for his use by William Camden" (DNB).
Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22591 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pory Relationships: John Pory was a associate or acquaintance (general) of William Camden (2 May 1551-1623)
John Pory was a employed by Walter Cope (c.1553-30 Jul 1614)
John Pory was a correspondent of Edward Cotton (2 Nov 1616-11 Nov 1675)
John Pory was a visitor to (a person) Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617)
John Pory was a employed by Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 or 1553-23 Nov 1616)
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