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Ambassadors of England to the Netherlands
Sir Thomas Gresham
Attachments
Thomas Gresham
Parents
1394-Today Worshipful Company of Mercers
1509-Today St Paul's School, London
1556-1714 Spanish Netherlands
adept market-play
Agents for King Henry VIII
Ambassadors of England to the Netherlands
English merchants
Financial Agents of the Crown
Financiers
Founders of English schools and colleges
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gresham Family
King Henry VIII of England
Knights Bachelor
Merchants
Prison Guards
Richard Clough
Sir Richard Gresham
Children
...and foreign goods, not only were his services retained throughout her reign (1553-1558), but besides his salary of twenty shillings per diem he received grants of church lands to the yearly value of 200 pounds.
"Bad money drives out good"
1544 Gresham married Anne Ferneley, widow of Sir William Read. By his wife he had an only son who predeceased him. He also had an illegitimate daughter who married Sir Nathaniel Bacon, half-brother of Francis Bacoon, 1st Viscount St Albans, becoming Anne,
1544 Thomas Gresham married Anne Ferneley, widow of the London merchant Sir William Read, but maintained residence principally in the Low Countries, basing his headquarters at Antwerp in present-day Belgium (then the Spanish Netherlands), where he became r
1551 Gresham advocated the adoption of various methods - highly ingenious, but quite arbitrary and unfair - for raising the value of the pound sterling on the bourse of Antwerp...
1551 The mismanagement of Sir William Dansell, King's Merchant to the Low Countries, had caused the English Government much financial embarrassment, the authorities called Gresham for advice, thereafter following his proposals.
1551-? The Government sought Gresham's advice in all their money difficulties, and also frequently employed him in various diplomatic missions.
1553 On the accession of Queen Mary in 1553 Gresham fell out of favour at Court for a short time with Alderman William Dauntsey displacing him.
1553-1558 But Dauntsey's financial operations proved unsuccessful and Gresham was soon re-instated: and as he professed his zealous desire to serve the Queen, and manifested great adroitness both in negotiating loans and in smuggling money, arms...
1558-1603 Under Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558-1603), besides continuing in his post as financial agent of the Crown, Gresham acted as Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Court of Duchess Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands,...
1559 ...and (Thomas Gresham) was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1559 prior to his departure.
1565 Gresham made a proposal to the City's Court of Aldermen to build, at his own expense, a bourse or exchange - what became the Royal Exchange, modelled on the Antwerp bourse - on condition that the Corporation provided for this purpose a location.
1565 In 1565 Gresham founded the Royal Exchange in the City of London.
1565 In this proposal he seems to have had a good eye for his self-interest as well as for the general good of the City's merchants, for by a yearly rental of £700 obtained for the shops in the upper part of the building he received more than sufficient..
1569-1572 Queen Elizabeth also found Gresham's abilities useful in a variety of other ways, including acting as gaoler to Lady Mary Grey (sister of Lady Jane Grey), who, as a punishment for marrying Thomas Keyes the sergeant-porter, was imprisoned in his h
1571 The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London.
1571-Today Royal Exchange, London
1597-Today Gresham College
1843-Today Gresham Club
Anne Gresham
By virtue of his visit to Jerusalem, he became a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. Back in London, he became a factor (or manager) for Thomas Gresham and entered the Mercers' Company.
Edward VI of England
Gresham Palace
Gresham Road
Gresham Street
Gresham's Law AKA Gresham-Copernicus Law
His enterprises made Thomas Gresham one of the richest men of his generation in England.
Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin AKA Gresham Hotel
Mary I of England
Queen Elizabeth I of England
The Gresham Grasshopper forms the weathervane on the Royal Exchange in the City of London, also founded by him in 1565.
Thomas Gresham had no stated salary, but in reward of his services received from King Edward various grants of lands, the annual value of which at that time amounted ultimately to about 400 pounds a year.