[Tommies] Thomson/Earl of Arundel/East India Company

[Virginia Thomson-Baldwin]

In response to this comment:

David Thomson's letter
to Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel proves his close relationship  
to him.
William Crowne in his younger days was a "servant" - clerk to Thomas  
Howard,
the Earl and got his start through him

http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/business/business13.html

By 1639, the East India Company at Surat owned a few country ships  
(regional traders only, not necessarily beholden to Company  
authority), and they in various ways saved the Company money. In  
early 1639 the East India Company was appalled as the Earl of Arundel  
with the king's backing wanted to get to the east; his plan resembled  
the Earl of Southampton's venture to settle Mauritius. And that idea  
simply revived an abandoned project of Prince Rupert.
Earl Arundel: This was Thomas Howard (1585-1646), fourteenth Earl  
Arundel, Earl Norfolk. See Mary F. S. Hervey, The Life,  
Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.  
Cambridge University Press, 1921. Kraus Reprint, New York, 1969;  
genealogical tables. Lorimer, (Ed.), Amazon, p. 194, Note 3. GEC,  
Peerage, Arundel, p. 255; Norfolk, pp. 624ff.

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There may be a Thomson connection, however, Maurice Thomson's  
brother, Robert, was born in 1622 and he, as far as anyone knows, was  
the last son born into that family.

Virginia
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