Editing Francis Drake (section)

==Family and heritage==
[[File:Elizabeth Sydenham Lady Drake.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Elizabeth Sydenham Lady Drake]]

[[File:2018 gb-plymouth-ggd-buckland abbey 140718 08.jpg|thumb|right|400px|[[Buckland Abbey]] in Devon]]

Francis Drake married Mary Newman at [[St Budeaux]] church near [[Plymouth]], on 4 July 1569.{{sfn|Kelsey|2000|p=44}} She died about 24 January 1583.{{sfn|Kelsey|2000|p=236}} In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham, born around 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of [[Combe Sydenham]],{{sfn|Sugden|2006|page=174}} who was the [[High Sheriff of Somerset]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/sheriffs_of_somerset.htm | title=The Occupants of the ancient office of High Sheriff of Somerset | publisher=Tudor Court | access-date=30 March 2011 | archive-date=13 May 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513235542/http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/sheriffs_of_somerset.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1580, Drake purchased [[Buckland Abbey]], a large manor house near [[Yelverton, Devon]], via intermediaries from Sir Richard Grenville. He lived there for fifteen years, until his final voyage, and it remained in his family until 1946.<ref name="Gill1984">{{cite book |last1=Gill |first1=Crispin |editor1-last=Thrower |editor1-first=Norman J.W. |title=Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577–1580: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of Drake's Circumnavigation of the Earth |year=1984 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520048768 |page=85 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPJVxZu8btoC&pg=85 |chapter=Drake and Plymouth}}</ref> Buckland Abbey is now in the care of the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] and a number of mementos of his life are displayed there. His coat of arms and full achievement is depicted in the form of a large, coloured plaster overmantel in the Lifetimes Gallery at Buckland Abbey.<ref name="von Einsiedel2012"/>

Drake was one of twelve children. His brother Thomas accompanied him on voyages, and named his son after him. That nephew eventually became [[Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet]].<ref name=FullerEliottDrake1911>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/familyheirsofsir01fulluoft|title=The family and heirs of Sir Francis Drake|first=Elizabeth (Douglas)|last=Fuller-Eliott-Drake|date=19 March 1911|publisher=London : Smith, Elder|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>