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British diplomat and historian
Sir Paul Rycaut
Sir Paul Rycaut
FRS (23 December 1629 – 16 November 1700) was an English
diplomat and
historian , and an authority on the
Ottoman Empire .
[1]
Life
Rycaut's
Huguenot father was held in the
Tower of London , during the
English Civil War , for his
Cavalier sympathy, but the sequestration of his property was lifted.
Rycaut was born in
Aylesford , Kent, and graduated from
Trinity College, Cambridge , in 1650.
[2] In 1652, he was admitted to
Gray's Inn . While studying at
Alcalá de Henares , he learned Spanish and translated the first part of
Baltasar Gracián 's The Critick . Rycaut was then employed as private secretary to
Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea , ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He became British
Consul and
factor
[3] at
Smyrna (now
İzmir ).
[4]
From 1689 to 1700, he was
Resident at
Hamburg .
[5] He was active in frustrating the efforts of the
Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies to raise capital in the city.
[6]
On 12 December 1666, Rycaut was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society .
[7]
Knighthood was conferred on him in 1685. He died in
Hamburg , aged 70,[
citation needed ] of a stroke.
[8]
Works
«Monarchia turecka opisana przez Ricota»,
Slutsk , 1678
His letters to
William Blathwayt are held at
Princeton University .
[9]
References
^
"Sir Paul Rycaut – National Portrait Gallery" .
^
"Rycant, Paul (RCNT646P)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Jason Goodwin (2003).
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire . Macmillan.
ISBN
978-0-312-42066-6 .
^
Sonia P. Anderson (1989).
An English consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667-1678 . Oxford University Press. p.
19 .
ISBN
978-0-19-820132-8 . Sir Paul Rycaut.
^ Phyllis S. Lachs (1966).
The diplomatic corps under Charles II & James II . Rutgers University Press.
^ Watt, Douglas, (2024), The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations , Luath Press Limited,
Edinburgh , pp. 9, 97, 100, 109 & 129,
ISBN
9781913025595
^
"Library and Archive Catalogue" . The Royal Society. Retrieved 10 October 2010 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Almost 300 years without a duvet" . BBC News. 25 December 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2021 .
^
"Sir Paul Rycaut Letters to William Blathwayt, 1692-1699: Finding Aid" . Archived from
the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2010 .
External links
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
"Rycaut, Paul" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
"Paul Rycaut", The Royal Society [
permanent dead link ]
"Ottoman Politics Through British Eyes: Paul Rycaut's the Present State of the Ottoman Empire", Journal of World History , Linda T. Darling, Vol. 5, 1994
"Sir Paul Rycaut's Memoranda and Letters from Ireland 1686-1687", Analecta Hibernica , Patrick Melvin and Paul Rycaut, No. 27 (1972), pp. 123, 125-199
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