William Swan (diplomat)

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Sir William Swan (* around 1619 ; † 23 August 1678 ) was an English diplomat.

He was believed to have come from a lower nobility family from Southfleet, Kent . In the English Civil War he sided with the royalists , had to flee into exile to continental Europe and entered Dutch service as an officer in 1645 at the latest . There he was promoted to Knight Bachelor in Breda by the exiled King Charles II in 1649 . He settled in Hamburg and traveled to numerous European royal courts in the 1650s to organize funds for the restoration of Charles II.

After the successful restoration of Charles II, he stayed in Hamburg, where from 1663 he became English Minister- Resident and Court Master, as well as Deputy Governor of the Company of Merchant Adventurers . He was repeatedly sent by Charles II on diplomatic missions to European royal courts, for example in 1671 and 1678 to Electoral Saxony .

Utricia Ogle, Lady Swann

On December 18, 1645 he was in Utrecht of Sir John Ogle (1599-1640), English governor of Utrecht married the singer and musician Utricia Ogle (1611-1674), daughter. With her he had a daughter named Utricia.

He died in 1678 at the age of 59.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 222.
  2. ↑ Geoffrey Smith: The Cavaliers in Exile 1640-1660. Springer, 2003, ISBN 0230505473 , p. 190.
  3. ^ Announcements from the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 11, Hamburg 1914, p. 215.
  4. ↑ Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, et al .: The English Historical Review. Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248.
  5. ^ H. Watanabe-O'Kelly: Court Culture in Dresden. Springer, 2002, ISBN 0230514499 , p. 143.
  6. ↑ Julius Erbstein, Albert Erbstein: Discussions in the field of the Saxon coin and medal history. Self-published by the author, Dresden 1888, p. 232
  7. ^ Anne R. Larsen: Anna Maria van Schurman, 'The Star of Utrecht'. The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Routledge, 2016, ISBN 1317180704 , p. 45.
  8. ↑ George Edward Cokayne: Complete Baronetage. English, Irish and Scottish, 1665-1707. Volume 4, W. Pollard & Co., 1904, p. 449.
  9. ↑ Christopher Joby: The multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687). Amsterdam University Press, 2014, ISBN 9048524091 , p. 110.
  10. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History. Volume 3, Meißner, Hamburg 1851, p. 441.
personal data
SURNAME Swan, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH around 1619
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 1678