Paul Rycaut [SEP] place of death
Paul Rycaut
Sir Paul Rycaut FRS (23 December 1629, in London – 16 November 1700, in Hamburg) was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire.
Life.
His Huguenot father was held in the Tower of London, during the English Civil War, for his Cavalier sympathy, but the sequestration of his property was lifted.
Rycaut was born in Aylesford, Kent and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1650. In 1652, he was admitted to Gray's Inn.
links.
- "Paul Rycaut", "The Royal Society"
- "Ottoman Politics Through British Eyes: Paul Rycaut's the Present State of the Ottoman Empire", "Journal of World History", Linda T. Darling, Vol. 5, 1994
- "Sir Paul Rycaut's Memoranda and Letters from Ireland 1686-1687", "Analecta Hibernica", Patrick Melvin and Paul Rycaut, No. 27 (1972), pp. 123, 125-199