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The executors were his son John, his sons-in-law Sir Rowland Hayward and Thomas Fanshawe, and his friend and fellow merchant Thomas Aldersey. The overseer was Thomas Owen. Smythe died 7 June 1591 and was buried in Ashford church, where a monument was erected to him.
He was one of the founders of the East India Company, and on 11 April 1601 was elected its governor, during the imprisonment of Sir Thomas Smythe. He served as a Sheriff of the City of London in 1597. On the accession of James I he was knighted on 26 July 1603, becoming Lord Mayor of London in 1606–1607. The Spanish ambassador however noted ...
The London merchant Sir Thomas Smythe holds a map in this engraved portrait by Simon de Passe, published in London in 1616. The text beneath his image identifies Smythe as a former ambassador to Russia; a governor of the Muscovy Company, the East India Company, and the French and Somer Islands Company; and a treasurer of the Virginia Company.
Son of Thomas Smythe of Ostenhanger (q.v.); merchant; Ambassador to Russia in 1604-1605 ... Title Monument in the church of Sutton-at-Hone, to Sir Thomas Smythe, ...
SMITH or SMYTHE, Sir THOMAS (1558?–1625), merchant, governor of the East India Company, born about 1558, was second surviving son of Thomas Smythe of Ostenbanger (now Westenhanger) in Kent, by his wife Alice, daughter of Sir Andrew Judd. His grandfather, John Smythe of Corsham, Wiltshire, is described as yeoman, haberdasher, and clothier.
SMYTHE, Sir Thomas (1558-1625), of Philpott Lane, London and Bounds Place, Bidborough, Kent Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 , ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
Brief Life History of Thomas. When Thomas Smith was born in 1543, in North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England, his father, William Smith, was 25 and his mother, Joan Rudge, was 33. He married Joan Royce in 1563, in England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. His occupation is listed as outstanding merchant in London, England.
