Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
Thomas West (MP died 1622) Thomas West (MP died 1622) Sir Thomas West (died 1622) was an English politician. He was a younger son of Sir George West of Warbleton, Sussex. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester in 1571, for Mitchell in 1572 and for Hampshire in 1589. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire from c. 1573 and was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1585–86. He was knighted in 1591. On his death he was buried in Eling church. He had married a daughter and coheiress of Mr Hotofts of Hampshire and had one