Thomas Roe sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644.
13 Facts About Thomas Roe
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Thomas Roe was an accomplished scholar and a patron of learning.
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Thomas Roe was born at Low Leyton near Wanstead in Essex, the son of Sir Robert Rowe of Gloucestershire and Cranford, Middlesex, and his wife Elinor Jermy, daughter of Robert Jermy of Worstead, Norfolk.
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Sir Thomas Roe died in 1644 at the age of about 63.
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Thomas Roe was buried in the parish church of St Mary in Woodford, London.
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In 1610, Thomas Roe was sent by Prince Henry on a mission to the West Indies, during which he visited Guiana and the Amazon River.
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Thomas Roe tried to reach the Lake Parime location of the fabled El Dorado, that was represented in the map of Thomas Harriot in 1596.
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In 1614, Thomas Roe was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth.
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Thomas Roe concluded a treaty with Algiers in 1624, by which he secured the liberation of several hundred English captives.
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Thomas Roe gained the support, by an English subsidy, of the Transylvanian Prince Gabriel Bethlen for the European Protestant alliance and the cause of the Palatinate.
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Thomas Roe searched for Greek marbles on behalf of the Duke of Buckingham and the second Earl of Arundel.
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In 1629, Thomas Roe was successful in another mission undertaken, to arrange a peace between Sweden and Poland.
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Thomas Roe was appointed as England's ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire from 1641 to 1642.