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   Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ ə m /; c. 1519 – 21 November 1579) was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553) and Edward's half-sisters, queens Mary I (1553–1558) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

2. www.britannica.com › money › Thomas-GreshamSir Thomas Gresham | Merchant, Economist, Founder ...

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   Sir Thomas Gresham (born 1518/19, London, England—died November 21, 1579, London) was an English merchant, financier, and founder of the Royal Exchange. An overview of the first Royal Exchange, opened by Sir Thomas Gresham in London in 1570.

3. www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk › sir-thomas-greshamSir Thomas Gresham - The History of London

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   Following his apprenticeship Thomas gained the right to membership of the Mercers’ Company in 1543. Three years later he took control of the family business in the Netherlands, exporting woollen cloth from England and importing fine cloth and armaments.

4. www.theroyalexchange.co.uk › heritageHeritage | The Royal Exchange

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   1566. Known as the father of English banking, wealthy merchant Sir Thomas Gresham establishes The Royal Exchange as London’s first purpose-built centre for trading stocks. It is modelled on the Bourse in Antwerp, the world’s oldest financial exchange, where Gresham had been based as a royal agent.

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6. www.gresham.ac.uk › watch-now › playlistsThe Life and Legacy of Sir Thomas Gresham

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   Sir Thomas Gresham was a financial giant of Tudor England, and one of the most influential men of the era. He cemented his financial legacy through the founding of the first Royal Exchange in 1571.

7. www.mainelli.orgSir Thomas Gresham: Tudor, Trader, Shipper, Spy | Professor ...

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   Thomas Gresham was a cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells on Cheapside, around 1519. He attended St Paul’s School and Gonville College (later to become Gonville and Caius), Cambridge. In 1543 the Mercers’ Company admitted the 24-year-old Gresham as a liveryman dealing in cloth.

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   • Portrait of Thomas Gresham, aged approximately 41. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (/ ˈɡrɛʃəm /; c. 1519 – 21 November 1579) was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553) and Edward's half-sisters, queens Mary I (1553–1558) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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   Who was Sir Thomas Gresham?

   • Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder (/ ˈɡrɛʃəm /; c. 1519 – 21 November 1579) was an English merchant and financier who acted on behalf of King Edward VI (1547–1553) and Edward's half-sisters, queens Mary I (1553–1558) and Elizabeth I (1558–1603). In 1565 Gresham founded the Royal Exchange in the City of London.

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   Where did Thomas Gresham live?

   • In spite of his London marriage, Thomas Gresham still continued to reside principally in the Low Countries. Later, in 1559 he bought a large mansion on 43 Lange Nieuwstraat, as well as a Flemish country mansion. Monarchs, such as Emperor Charles V and his son Philip II, and big trading firms, such as the Fuggers, raised funds on the Antwerp Bourse.

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   Did Thomas Gresham have a son?

   • Interestingly, one of Sir Thomas’s ships from 1570 was re-discovered in the Thames in 2003 with cannons inscribed with grasshoppers and marked ‘TG’. In 1544, Thomas Gresham married Anne Read (née Ferneley), the widow of William Read, a London merchant, who already had two sons. The Gresham’s son, Richard, was born about 1544-5.

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   • J W Burgon published the largest work, “The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham” in 1839, and F R Salter a shorter work in 1925. Sir Thomas is a tough subject for biographers used to focusing on monarchs, their families and their wars. He traded in several lands and worked in several languages.

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   Who did Thomas Gresham marry?

   • In 1544, Thomas Gresham married Anne Read (née Ferneley), the widow of William Read, a London merchant, who already had two sons. The Gresham’s son, Richard, was born about 1544-5. In spite of his London marriage, Thomas Gresham still continued to reside principally in the Low Countries.

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9. www.longfinance.net › media › documentsSIR THOMAS GRESHAM: TUDOR, TRADER, SHIPPER, SPY1

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   Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–79) is the best known of all 16th-century English merchants and financiers. Gresham served four Tudor monarchs, managed to keep his head, and all the while made money. He helped to make London a great international financial centre by importing from Antwerp the idea of a ‘bourse’ or