Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ferdinando Gorges arrived in the world between 1565 and 1568 within the London town house his family kept in Clerkenwell. His father Edward died on the 29th of August 1568 at age thirty-one leaving behind a will dated just days before that event.
Ferdinando Gorges appeared as a captain commanding eight hundred soldiers sent from Flushing to aid the Earl of Leicester during the Siege of Sluis against Spanish forces. He fought under Lord Willoughby and suffered wounds at the siege of Paris in 1589 before receiving knighthood at Rouen in 1591.
Ferdinando Gorges chose to testify against the leaders of the failed plot rather than share their fate which allowed him to escape punishment while others lost their heads on Tower Hill. This decision proved crucial to the Crown's ability to dismantle the rebellion completely and marked a turning point from battlefield commander to political survivor within the Tudor court.
Ferdinando Gorges earned the title Father of English Colonization through his administrative efforts alone including funding the failed Popham Colony located in present-day Phippsburg Maine as a shareholder in the Plymouth Company. A land patent dated the 10th of August 1622 granted him rights over territory between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers alongside John Mason establishing what became known as Ye Province of Maine.
Ferdinando Gorges died on the 24th of May 1647 at Long Ashton buried without markings in the Smyth crypt. His eldest son John inherited the Province of Maine though younger son Robert had briefly served as Governor-General from 1623 to 1624.