Walter Raleigh at the Preparatory School of Barnard Castle School. Raleigh County, West Virginia, is also named in his honour. Mount Raleigh in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, was named for him, with related features the Raleigh Glacier and Raleigh Creek named in association with the mountain. Mount Gilbert, just to Mount Raleigh's south, was named for his half-brother, Sir Humphrey. Raleigh has been widely speculated to be responsible for introducing the potato to Europe, and was a key figure in bringing it to Ireland. However, modern historians dispute this claim, suggesting it would have been
TSS Sir Walter Raleigh (1908) were made to her superstructure for use as a mining tender. She returned to the GWR at the end of 1945 but the following year was sold and found use with various salvage operators until cut up in 1968. TSS Sir Walter Raleigh (1908) TSS "Sir Walter Raleigh" was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908. TSS "Sir Walter Raleigh" was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS "Sir Francis Drake". She was on trial in the Mersey during April 1908. She was hired to the Admiralty as a