Nathaniel Wyche

Nathaniel Wyche was a British merchant and president of the English East India Company.

Nathaniel was born in 1607, the son of Richard Wyche, a director of the East India Company, by his wife Elizabeth Saltonstall, daughter of Lord Mayor of London Richard Saltonstall. One of his brothers, Peter Wyche, was the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He married, in 1657, Anne Cranmer, who was 26 years his junior, but they had no children.

A long-time member of the English East India Company, he was selected as its president in 1658, though he initially turned down the position.[1] He was the first company president of the whole of India, which had previously been divided into four presidencies.[2] He died at Surat on 23 May 1659 and was buried in the English Cemetery there.[3]

References
  1. Sainsbury, Ethel Bruce "A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc. of the English East India Company 1655 - 1659" pp. 210 - 212
  2. "Genealogies of Virginia Families". William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. 2006. ISBN 9780806309552.
  3. Scarre, Chris and Roberts, Judith The English Cemetery at Surat: Pre-Colonial Cultural Encounters in Western India The Antiquaries Journal pg. 283
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