[or Kertk]. English adventurer, born in Deippe, France, of English parentage. During the Huguenot troubles he went to England; secured vessels there under royal letters of marque, and set out with his two brothers against the French colonies in Canada, besieging Quebec ineffectually. During a subsequent expedition he again laid siege to Quebec, compelling Champlain to surrender the city to him in 1629, though it was returned to France in 1632. At the same time Cape Breton was captured, but afterward ceded to France. He was knighted in 1633, and with others, received a grant of Newfoundland, of which he was governor for nearly twenty years. Cromwell dispossessed him, but he regained part of his property from Claypole (1653).
