Thomas Smythe

Thomas Smythe

Sir Thomas Smythe (b. 1558?, Ostenhanger, Kent - d. 4 September 1625, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent)cite web |url= http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068349/Sir-Thomas-Smythe |title= Sir Thomas Smythe |format= html |work= Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition |quote= ] the son of Customer Smythe, was an English entrepreneur in the Virginia Company which founded the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, and Bermuda.

Smythe financed numerous Elizabethan eracite web |url= http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Portrait-of-Sir-Thomas-Smythe-from-Memoirs-of-the-Court-of-Queen-Elizabeth-Published-in-1825-Posters_i1586560_.htm |title= Portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe from "Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth" |author= |format= html |publisher= Sarah, Countess of Essex, 1825 |quote= ] trade ventures and voyages of exploration during the early 17th century. A member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers and the Worshipful Company of Skinners in London from 1580, he accumulated a considerable fortune from commerce.

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