Thomas Smythe

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Sir Thomas Smythe (b. 1558?, Ostenhanger, Kent - d. 4 September 1625, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent)[1] 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 era[2] 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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  1. ^ Sir Thomas Smythe (html). Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition.
  2. ^ Portrait of Sir Thomas Smythe from "Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth" (html). Sarah, Countess of Essex, 1825.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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