John Pory | |
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 The title page of Pory's translation of Leo Africanus's A Geographical Historie of Africa (1600) | |
| Born | 1572 England |
| Died | 1636 (aged 63–64) England |
| Occupation | Government administrator, traveller, author, journalist |
| Period | 1600–1636 |
| Subject | Exploration, geography, travel |
John Pory (1572–1636) was an English politician, administrator, traveller and author of the Jacobean and Caroline eras;[1] the skilled linguist may have been the first news correspondent in English-language journalism. As the first Speaker of the Virginia General Assembly, Pory established parliamentary procedures for that legislative body still in use today (although members now elect their Speaker).
- ^ William Stevens Powell (1977), John Pory, 1572–1636: The Life and Letters of a Man of Many Parts, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0-8078-1271-6.