Hakluyt

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Richard Hakluyt was a sixteenth-century English geographer who gathered and published early accounts of exploration and sea voyages
2. The name of a late Elizabethan English clergyman and geographer famed for collecting records of English maritime travel and discovery
3. An Elizabethan writer and cleric who compiled the famous collection of English voyages and explorations known as the Principal Navigations

Etymology: Between the 14th and 16th centuries, several people in Herefordshire, on the English-Welsh border, were recorded with surnames such as Hakelute, de Hackluit, Hackluit, and Hakeluytt. Spelling was not standardised then, so one family name could appear in many forms. The name is possibly ultimately derived from the forest of Cluid. That link remains a possibility rather than a settled origin, and the surviving records show only the Herefordshire spellings.