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Henry Roberts (1756–1796), a native to Shoreham, Sussex, was an officer in the 
Henry Roberts (1756–1796), a native to Shoreham, Sussex, was an officer in the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
who served with Captain Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and ...
on his last two voyages.
Roberts served as lieutenant on Cook's HMS ''Discovery'', where he was entrusted with many hydrographic and cartographic tasks, and also met then-midshipman George Vancouver. Roberts spent many years after that voyage preparing the detailed charts that went into Cook's posthumous ''Atlas''. Roberts also served on where he was to make a painting of the ship.
In 1790, Roberts was appointed to command a newly built HMS ''Discovery'' on another round-the-world voyage and selected George Vancouver as his first lieutenant. However, the Nootka Crisis
The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling United States of America triggered b ...
called both men to duty elsewhere, and upon its resolution, Vancouver was given command of the historic voyage.
At age of 40, Roberts died on 25 August 1796, Captain of HMS ''Undaunted'' in the West Indies, where he contracted yellow fever.
in November of 1791, his youngest daughter, Mary Peck Roberts married William J. Stephens Esq, a Lieutenant at the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
. Hampshire Chronicle - Monday 14 November 1791 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000230/17911114/010/0003
Vancouver named Point Roberts
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after Henry Roberts.
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