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Father of navigation. Don Henrique, Duke of Viseo, the greatest man that Portugal ever produced. (1394-1460.)

Father of British inland navigation.
Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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