William Keeling

During this voyage he met with an ambassador from the Siamese Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1608 at Bantam at the west end of Java.

He discovered the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1609 as he was going home from Banda to England.

On his return, King James I appointed Keeling a Groom of the Chamber, and about 1618 he was named Captain of Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight, where he died in 1620.

[1] A fragment of Keeling's diary survives, in which he allegedly details his crew's shipboard performances of Shakespeare's Hamlet (off the coast of Sierra Leone, 5 September 1607, and at Socotra, 31 March 1608)[1] and of Richard II (Sierra Leone, 30 September 1607).

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Location of Cocos (Keeling) Islands at 12°07′S 96°54′E  /  12.117°S 96.900°E  / -12.117; 96.900 in the Indian Ocean .
Painted Memorial to William Keeling in St Mary's Church, Carisbrooke , Isle of Wight