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Peter Wyche (diplomat)

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147:, and born in London in 1628. He is believed to have died about 1699, married on 19 February 1666 Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert Bolles (Blomefield, Hist. of Norfolk, ii. 180), bart., of Scampton, Lincolnshire, by Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Hussey, and had issue, first, John, English envoy extraordinary at Hamburg (Boyer, Annals of Queen Anne, 1710, viii. 386); second, Bernard, a merchant at Surat, and father of Peter Wyche, who was in 1741 high sheriff of Lincolnshire; third, Peter, a merchant, who died at Cambrai; fourth, George, a merchant at Pondicherry. 162:‘A Short Relation of the River Nile, of its Source and Current, and of its overflowing the Campagnia of Egypt’ (London, 1669, 8vo). This was translated from a Portuguese manuscript at the request of a number of fellows of the Royal Society. Sir Peter further extended his reputation as a geographical scholar by his ‘The World geographically describ'd in fifty-two Copper Plates’ (London, 1687). The plates could either be bound or made up in packets on cards for purposes of instruction. 159:‘The Life of Dom John de Castro, the fourth Viceroy of India. Written in Portuguese by Jacinto Freire de Andrada’ (London, fol.) This was dedicated to Queen Catherine, the consort of Charles II, prefaced by a brief sketch of Portuguese history by Wyche, and licensed for the press by Henry Bennett on 12 August 1663. A second edition, also in folio, appeared in 1693. 113:
In May 1656 he was in Italy, where Hyde procured him a passport and a testimonial in Latin, signed by the exiled Charles II. He was knighted by Charles II at The Hague in May 1660, and shortly afterwards returned to England and was incorporated M.A. at Oxford. He was declared one of the fellows of
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In 1669 he was sent as envoy extraordinary to Russia, sending despatches home from Moscow in September. Upon his journeys he was 'honourably' entertained at Danzig, at Königsberg, and at Hamburg, in which city he was
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upon its foundation by charter in 1662, and in 1665 was nominated chairman of a committee of the society appointed to consider the improvement of the English tongue, in which capacity he received a long letter from
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He died in London circa 1699. He had married Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert Bolles, Bart, of Scampton, Lincolnshire. His grandson
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for several years, his commission terminating in February 1682. Among the state papers are several of his letters to
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Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1627–8 pp. 36, 255, 439, 1628–9 p. 144, 1672 p. 324
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Harl. MS. 2040, f. 267 (a more or less conjectural pedigree from the twelfth century)
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Ormerod's Cheshire, iii. 568 (giving the arms allowed to the family in 1663–4)
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For his father, the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, born 1593, see
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in 1649. He was knighted in 1660. In May 1663 he was elected a
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Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes, 1638, p. 1497;
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Wyche executed two capable translations from the Portuguese:
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A handlist of British diplomatic representatives 1509–1688
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Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia
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Luttrell's Brief Hist. Relation of State Affairs, vol. i.
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Peter Wyche (ambassador)
Sir Peter Wyche
Sir Cyril Wyche
Exeter College, Oxford
Queens' College, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Inner Temple
Fellow of the Royal Society
English Ambassador to Russia
Poland
Cyril Wyche
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia
Wyche baronets
gentleman commoner
Exeter College, Oxford
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Middle Temple
Royal Society
John Evelyn
English resident to the Hanseatic cities
Sir Joseph Williamson
Peter Wyche
"Library and Archive Catalogue"
Categories
1628 births
1699 deaths
Portuguese–English translators
Ambassadors of England to Russia
Ambassadors of England to Poland
17th-century English diplomats

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