William Hussey
Deceased Person
1642 – 1691
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Who was William Hussey?
Sir William Hussey was English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Hussey was the son of Thomas Hussey and his wife Rhoda Chapman, daughter of Thomas Chapman, of London. He was a merchant and deputy-governor of the Levant Company and was appointed by King William III as Ambasasdor to the Porte in Constantinople as England was mediating between the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire in 1691. Hussey died that same year in Edirne, during the peace negotiations. His sarcophagus remains in the Edirne Museum.
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