Born at Borough Manor in Northam, Devon, Stephen Borough was a Tudor mariner, trader and explorer, who set up a company to trade with Russia and made several voyages in search of an Artic route around Norway and Russia to China. He also comissioned the first translation of the era's best navigational text from Spanish to English. Part of a well-known maritime family, Stephen was the son of Walter and Mary Dough Borough, grandson of Stephen Borough (b. 1470), nephew of John Aborough, brother to Controller of the Navy and cartographer William Borough, father of explorer Christopher Borough. He was the father-in-law of the Huguenot John Vassall, London Alderman and successful shipbuilder. A member of the Virginia Company, backers and organizers of the Jamestown settlement, Vassall is also believed to have been part-owner of the Mayflower and its possible builder. Stephen Borough passed away in the summer of 1584 at "Goodsight", his house in Chatham.
Born at Borough Manor in Northam, Devon, Stephen Borough was a Tudor mariner, trader and explorer, who set up a company to trade with Russia and made several voyages in search of an Artic route around Norway and Russia to China. He also comissioned the first translation of the era's best navigational text from Spanish to English. Part of a well-known maritime family, Stephen was the son of Walter and Mary Dough Borough, grandson of Stephen Borough (b. 1470), nephew of John Aborough, brother to Controller of the Navy and cartographer William Borough, father of explorer Christopher Borough. He was the father-in-law of the Huguenot John Vassall, London Alderman and successful shipbuilder. A member of the Virginia Company, backers and organizers of the Jamestown settlement, Vassall is also believed to have been part-owner of the Mayflower and its possible builder. Stephen Borough passed away in the summer of 1584 at "Goodsight", his house in Chatham.
