William Radcliff

William Radcliff was an Atlantean shipping magnate in Stuart in the mid 17th century. He was a desecendent of Henry Radcliffe, son of Edward Radcliffe, the founder of Atlantis. William's grandfather, according to family legend, saw no purpose to the letter e, and so dropped it. This Radcliff's brother was the grandfather of pirate Red Rodney Radcliffe. William and Rodney shared a deep emnity. William saw his cousin as a stain on the family honor. Adding insult to injury, Red Rodney preyed upon William's ship. In the 1650s, when the powers of the Avalon pirates were at their zenith, Radcliff was approached by the English agent Elijah Walton about destroying the pirates once and for all. William jumped at the chance.