DENHAM, JOHN [SSNE 6513]

Surname

DENHAM

First name

JOHN

Title/rank

SIR

Nationality

ENGLISH

Text source

Sir John Denham was sent by King Charles II to Poland in 1650 in order to obtain a tithe from the Scots living and working there.

A. Bieganska, "Scottish Merchants and traders in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Warsaw", Scottish Slavonic Review, 5 (1985), p.23; R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.195; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.23.

Service record

STUART KINGDOMS, POLAND-LITHUANIA

Arrived 1650-01-01

Departed 1650-12-31

Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY