Sir George Somers: Bermuda and the Lyme Regis Link

From Bermuda Legal - Statue of Sir George Somers erected in Lyme Regis, Dorset

"Sir George Somers, an exquisite Navigatour, and one of the first Discoverers of the Barmudoas, where at last, after manie Voyages thither, he died ; but his Bodie, beeing brought unto England, was interred at Whitechurch". Thomas Gerard (1620s)