at Court of St James's made several written complaints about the secretary's share in this undertaking to the king at Whitehall Palace. In the midst of this latest foreign policy crisis, Sir Ralph Winwood died in London on 28 October 1617. It can hardly be doubted, wrote Gardiner, that, if he had lived till the following summer, he would have shared in Raleigh's ruin. Marriage Ralph Winwood married Elizabeth Ball, daughter of Nicholas Ball of Totnes, Devon, by whom he had five sons (2 of whom predeceased him) and four daughters. One of Winwood's daughters, Anne Winwood (d. 1643), married Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, and their son was Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. References Bibliography Winwood's official correspondence and other papers passed to the Duke of Montagu. From 1899, they were in the possession of the Duke of Buccleuch. They are calendared in the Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission on the manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch. See the Introduction to this Report (1899). Sources 1560s births 1617 deaths People from Aynho Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn Secretaries of State of the Kingdom of England English MPs 1614 Clerks of the Privy Council 16th-century English diplomats Ambassadors of England to the Netherlands 17th-century English diplomats