who is raleigh?
Sir Walter Raleigh Â© Raleigh was an adventurer, courtier to Elizabeth I, navigator, author and poet.M. Walter Raleigh (also spelled Ralegh) was born into a well-connected gentry family at Hayes Barton in Devon in around 1552. He attended Oxford University for a time, fought with the Huguenots in France and later studied law in London.