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Nathaniel Wyche
1607-1659Merchant and officialEurope · 1607Most named place: India (approximate)
Nathaniel Wyche was an English merchant and president of the English East India Company.
He was born as the son of the Richard Wyche, a director of the East India Company and Elizabeth Saltonstall. One of his brothers, Peter, served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Nathaniel became one of the leading merchants of the English East India Company. In 1657-1658 he was appointed a president of the Company. Therefore, he was the company's first representative of the whole of India, which was in previously divided into four presidencies.
He died at Surat, India, 1659.
