John Smith (explorer)
In 1614, Smith returned to the northeast coast of America and named the region "New England". In that same year a storm destroyed his ship. In 1615, Smith was captured by French pirates off the coast of the Azore Islands.  He escaped after weeks of captivity and made his way back to England, where he wrote an account of his two voyages as A Description of New England. He never left England again. He died in the year 1631 in London at the age of 51.  He is buried in the church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London.