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.

He was president of the English East India Company for 1657-8, and was the first company president of the whole of India, which had previously been divided into four presidencies.^[1] He died at Surat on 17 May 1659.

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