Website/Catalog  (21 Dec 2015)  
 
Registered Name: 'Sir Walter Raleigh'
Synonyms:
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Sir Walter Raleigh
HT, ob, 1919, Le Cornu; bud long, pointed; flowers coppery reddish-salmon, reverse deep crimson, dbl., moderate fragrance. [Lady Pirrie × seedling]

Book  (2007)  Page(s) 597.  
 
Sir Walter Raleigh (Le Cornu, 1919). HT. 'Lady Pirrie' (HT) x unnamed sdlg. Reddish cop. salmon

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 596.  
 
Raleigh, Sir Walter (HT) Le Cornu 1919; L. Pirrie X ? seedling; coppery reddish salmon-colour, reverse dark crimson, large, double, cup form, lasting, cluster-flowered, fragrance 4/10, floriferous, good autumn-bloom, growth 7/10, upright.

Magazine  (1925)  Page(s) 169.  
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, Philip Le Cornu

Book  (1920)  Page(s) 132.  
 
The New Roses. Sir Walter Raleigh, H.T. (Le Cornu, 1919.) A free-blooming rose of the same color as 'Lady Pirrie', but with the reverse of the petals deep crimson. Fine autumn bloomer, often bearing 12 blooms to a spike. Stems and foliage deep bronze-red.

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 132.  
 
Mrs. Francis King, Rose Notes. Sir Walter Raleigh is to be the name of a new rose to be sent out in the autumn of 1919 by Philip le Cornu, of Highview, Queen's Road, Jersey (England). Mr. le Cornu adds to the name of the rose "Governor of Jersey", but six words is too much name for any rose. It is "a cross between Melanie Soupert and Louise Catherine Breslau, with mildew- proof Pernetiana foliage," which sounds interesting and hopeful."