Ancestral Trails 2016 » Thomas SMYTHE (1558-1625)

Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas SMYTHE 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1558 in Westenhanger, Tonbridge, Kent.
• Hij is gedoopt op 21 oktober 1563 in Whitgift, Yorkshire.Bron 1
• Beroepen:
• tussen 1599 en 1600 Master of Haberdashers.
• in het jaar 1600 First Governor of the East India Company.
• tussen 1600 en 1601 Sheriff.
• tussen 1600 en 1620 Treasurer of the Virginia Company.
• in het jaar 1604 Ambassador to Russia.
• tussen 1604 en 1611 Member of Parliament for Dunwich.
• in het jaar 1614 Member of Parliament for Sandwich.
• in het jaar 1615 Governor of Somers Island Company.
• tussen 1620 en 1622 Member of Parliament for Saltash.
• Opleiding: in het jaar 1571 Merchant Taylors.
• (Awards) in het jaar 1580 in Freeman of the Skinners Company.
• (Awards) op 13 mei 1603 in Knighted.
• Hij is overleden op 4 september 1625 in Sutton at Hone, Kent, hij was toen 67 jaar oud.
• Een kind van THOMAS BROUNCKER SMYTHE en ALICE JUDD

Gezin van Thomas SMYTHE

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Sarah BLOUNT.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1580.

Kind(eren):

1. Richard SMYTHE  ± 1586-< 1625
2. Margaret SMYTHE  ± 1582-1627
3. Robert SMYTHE  ± 1584-< 1625
4. John SMYTHE  1580-???? 

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Joan HOBBS.

(3) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Judith CULVERWELL.

Notities over Thomas SMYTHE

"Third, but second surviving son of Thomas Smythe of Westenhanger, Kent by Alice, daughter of Sir Andrew Judde.

He married first Judith Culverwell, daughter and heiress of Richard Culverwell; secondly Joan Hobbs, daughter. and heiress of William Hobbs, and thirdly Sarah Blount, daughter and heiress of William Blount, by whom he had three sons and one daughter.

In 1588, he lent £31,000 to Queen Elizabeth and raised the necessary funds for her to finance the English fleet which would destroy the Spanish Armada.

In the 30 years ending with the death of James I, Smythe was overseer of virtually all the trade which passed through the port of London. He had two outstanding examples: his maternal grandfather, Sir Andrew Judde, was a leading city merchant and lord mayor in the middle of the sixteenth century, and his father, "Customer" Smythe, whose shrewd judgment and financial acumen brought him a fortune in the city, and a position among the county families of Kent.

As well as his father, who died in 1591, there was at least one other London merchant of the same name. It is clear, however, that he was already well established in his own business during his father's lifetime, presumably with the latter's financial backing. By the end of the century he had three strings to his bow. He occupied a prominent position in the city; he took the lead in the new trading and colonizing companies which were becoming such a marked feature of the commercial life of the period; finally, as his list of offices shows, he put his experience to use in the government's service.

Sir Thomas Smythe funded explorers, he was involved in sending Hudson (who was cast adrift after a mutiny and died) and William Baffin (1615) to the Arctic. Sir Thomas proposed to the East India Company that they send a special ambassador to the Mogul emperor to obtain a permanent footing for trade with India.

In 1589 Sir Walter Raleigh handed over control of the Roanoke colony to a company of London merchants which included Sir Thomas Smythe

1591 was left plate of the value of £100 in the will of his father.

1597 Smythe had his first experience of the House of Commons when he was returned for Aylesbury, a seat previously occupied by his father and his elder brother, through his family's long-standing friendship with the Pakingtons. He was named to a committee on the poor law, 22 Nov 1597, and could have served on one about the highways near Aylesbury, 11 Jan 1598.

Others of his committees included those concerned with maltsters (12 Jan); two alien merchants (13 Jan); the sale of the lands and goods of one John Sharp presumably a merchant to pay his debts (20 Jan); and the reformation of abuses in wine casks (3 Feb).

1596, he was knighted for bravery by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex at Cadiz, and served as sheriff of London from 1600-1601. Smythe also served with Essex in Ireland in 1599, and was an acknowleded friend of his.

1598 mentioned in the will of his mother, Dame Alice Smythe, giving him "the furniture of her own best chamber, the hangings of tapestry, and the bedstead, with the tester and vallance of crimson velvet, the bed, bolster, pillows, and blankets and the great coverlid of Arras of the Story of Paris and Helen, her longest Turkey carpet, whereof there was a finer sort of red worsted and an ordinary sort; one tablecloth of damask of the Story of Holofernes, containing five yards in length and three in breadth, and one long broad towel, and two dozen napkins, and two hand towels of the same work, and one long needle-work carpet with the cushions and covered cloth to it."

1601 In the midst of his many successes, Smythe's career nearly came to an abrupt and fatal halt: he found himself deprived of the shrievalty of London, after being in office for only three months, and in prison under suspicion of being implicated in Essex's abortive coup d''etat of Feb 1601. On the 14th of that month the Privy Council informed the lord mayor that Smythe had `forgotten his duty to her Majesty´ and that the city would have to elect a new sheriff. On the same day he was placed in the custody of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a fortnight later, on 2 Mar, he was put in the Tower. His defence was a complete denial of the charges against him. He said that he had had no communication with the Earl for nine years until the day in question. He denied prior knowledge of the plot. It is surprising that he escaped with a period in prison and a heavy fine.

1603 With the new reign his return to favour was rapid. James I knighted Sir Thomas Smythe at the Tower of London in May 1603, he was shortly afterwards employed as Ambassador to Russia. As well as recovering his position as governor of all the important trading companies, he played a leading part in new trading ventures in Virginia, in Bermuda and in search of the North West Passage, and financed several voyages of exploration. He was also a leading adviser to the government on commercial and naval matters. His activities during these years, both in furthering trade and in encouraging the foundation of colonies, has led one historian to allot to him a `unique position among the founders of the Empire´.

He eventually retired to an estate he had purchased at Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, where he died 4 Sep 1625." Sources: Nichols, Progresses G. E. Cokayne, Lords Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601-25 Beaven, Aldermen http://www.tudorplace.com

1621 WILL OF SIR THOMAS SMYTH, SON OF THE CUSTOMER THOMAS SMITHE OF LONDON, KNIGHT Dated January 30, 1621; Codicil September 4, 1624; Proved October 12, 1625 ... As concerning my Manors, messuages, howses, lands, tenements and hereditaments, one moiety thereof to my wife Dame SARA SMITHE, during her life and after her decease to my sonne Sir JOHN SMITHE and to his heirs, in default of issue then as follows:
to my nephew, THOMAS SMITHE of Ostenhanger, in co. Kent, Esq. sonne and heire of Sir JOHN SMITHE, my late brother, deceased, my messuages and lands lying in Bidborough, Tunbridge Pentherst and Spellhurst (except my lands in Tunbridge which I purchased of Mr. DYKE);
to my nephew THOMAS SMITHE, sonne to my brother Sir RICHARD SMITHE., Knt.,
to my nephew JOHN SMITH, sonne to my late brother ROBERT SMITH, deceased, and
to my nephew THOMAS FANSHAWE, sonne to my Lady FANSHAWE, my lands and tenements called Otford Parke (now disparked) situate in Otford, Sevenoke and Seale, in co. Kent, which I lately purchased of the Earl of LEICESTER, to be equally divided amongst them, and their heirs.
To "my nephew Sir THOMAS BUTLER, OLIVER BUTLER sonnes to my sister URSULA BUTLER" and
to my nephew, Sir ARTHUR HARRIS, sonne to my late sister ALICE HARRIS, deceased, my lands and tenements called Cottington, situate near Sandwich, co. Kent which I lately purchased of WILLIAM RICHARDSON, gentleman, to be equally divided amongst them, and their heirs.

Thomas Smithe, son of his brother John, married Barbara Sydney - therefore, Thomas Smithe, the son of Sir Richard Smithe 'of Leeds Castle' seems to be the pertinent reference. If his son, John, who married ? Franklin, became "of Leeds Castle", what became of Thomas who must have been living in 1621 - and did this Thomas marry Mary Smyth of Ashton Court, Bristol? Presumably Thomas (son of Sir Richard 'of Leeds Castle') would have the Tunbridge lands of 'Mr Dyke'. and since Thomas Smyth of Bidborough, son of Customer Smyth purchased lands from a Mr Dyke - might there have been a former family Smyth-Dyke connection through marriage or property? Might this be the elusive "Smithdike" link that heads the listing for the Irish Smyth family descendancy and which is proving to be such a mystery?
SOURCE: http://www.zipworld.com.au

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