Maurice Abbot

Sir Maurice Abbot
Born1565 (1565)
Died1642 (aged 76–77)
OccupationsKnight, Governor of the East India Company

Sir Maurice Abbot (1565–1642) was an English merchant, Governor of the East India Company (1624–1638), and a politician who sat in the House of Commons (1621–1626). He was Lord Mayor of London in 1638.

Abbot's whole career was a notable instance of well-directed energy and enterprise; it was one of the earliest examples of the creation of enormous wealth by the application of personal abilities to commerce through the development English foreign trade at the close of the sixteenth and opening of the seventeenth centuries.

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