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Ralph Fitch
Born
1550 (1550)
Died
1611 (aged 60–61)
England
Occupation(s)
merchant, explorer
Known for
Traveled via the Levant and Mesopotamia to India then Burma and Malacca (in Malaysia) (1583–1591)
Ralph Fitch (1550 – 1611) was a gentleman, a merchant of London and one of the earliest British travellers and merchants to visit Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, South Asia & Southeast Asia including the court of Akbar the Great (Mughal emperor). At first he was no chronicler but he did eventually write descriptions of the Southeast Asia he saw in 1583–1591, and upon his return to England, in 1591, became a valuable consultant for the English East India Company.[1][2]
RalphFitch (1550 – 1611) was a gentleman, a merchant of London and one of the earliest British travellers and merchants to visit Mesopotamia, the Persian...
new-found routes to Asia very well. During July 1583, an English merchant, RalphFitch, was arrested for spying at Ormus (near the modern Iranian port of Bandar...
where it was first manufactured. The 16th-century English traveller RalphFitch lauded the muslin he saw in Sonargaon (in modern day Narayanganj District...
east but all were lost at sea. A year later however saw the arrival of RalphFitch, an adventurer merchant who, with his companions, had made a remarkable...
surrounded the Mughal fleet on four sides. In 1580, the English traveler RalphFitch described Isa Khan's kingdom, stating "for here are so many Rivers and...
the Bhati region (Baro-Bhuyans), which, according to the Jesuits and RalphFitch, earned a reputation for successively repelling Mughal invasions through...
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Qashliq near the right bank of Irtysh. 1583–1591: The English merchant RalphFitch, together with John Newberry and John Eldred, a jeweller named William...
Malaysia. The first English trader to visit the Malay Peninsula was RalphFitch who arrived in the 16th century. However, the British only became formally...
Islamic times it was also known as Ismailpur & Bacola (বাকলা) in Europe. RalphFitch, the first ever Englishman, a leather merchant, known to have visited...
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may also have been the reason since it was built solely on his whim. RalphFitch described it as such, "Agra and Fatehpore Sikri are two very great cities...
the early 17th century. RalphFitch, an English traveler to Bengal in 1580, wrote about the twelve zamindars. According to Fitch, "for here are so many...
Mecca, something that viewed as an act of banishment. In late 1586, RalphFitch, an English traveler and merchant, came to Sonargaon, Bengal's eastern...
had been purchasing small amounts of opium from India for trade since RalphFitch first visited in the mid-16th century. Trade in opium was standardized...
wedding and are expected to be complemented by the woman's best jewellery. RalphFitch (1583–1591) describes Banaras as a thriving sector of the cotton textile...
trade and commerce happening through its bazaars. The English traveller RalphFitch who visited Agra in September 1585 in the life-time of Akbar, writes...
English sailors and travelers reached Asia with one notable of RalphFitch. RalphFitch was known to have visited various places in Asia between 1583 and...
brothers Robert Shirley and Anthony Shirley, and for India Duarte Barbosa, RalphFitch, Ludovico di Varthema, Cesare Federici, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten...
named in the exhaustive list of cotton cloths in Ain-i-Akbari. In 1586 RalphFitch remarked that in Sonargaon, just fifteen miles east of Dhaka, there is...
violence against life forms, and became a religious and social taboo. RalphFitch, a merchant from London and one of the earliest English travellers to...
George Dorrington (acting vice-consul) 1596–1596 Thomas Sandys 1596–1597 RalphFitch 1597–1597 Richard Colthurst vacant 1606 James Hawarde (acting vice-consul)...
Thorpe Hall, Hoxne, Suffolk, and Anne Wilson. He was a descendant of RalphFitch and William Fytche. His father's sister, Elizabeth, married Rev. George...
violence against life forms, and became a religious and social taboo. RalphFitch, a gentleman merchant of London and one of the earliest English travellers...
Sinhalese Nationalism in Sri Lanka, 1993, pp. 11–12 Codrington, chap. 9 RalphFitch: An Elizabethan Merchant in 16th Century Chiang Mai Archived 16 July...
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