Thomas Bendish

Sir Thomas Bendysh, 2nd Baronet (c.1607–1674), served as the English ambassador to the Ottoman sultanate in the mid-17th century.

Son of Sir Thomas Bendish, 1st Baronet of Bower Hall, Steeple Bumpstead in the county of Essex, Bendish the younger enrolled in Middle Temple in 1626, after earlier studying at St John's College, Cambridge. Later in life, he would donate fifty books to St John's, of which forty are still kept today.

Sir Thomas succeeded to the Baronetcy on 1636. A decades later he was banned from Essex, had his estates seized, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London after siding with King Charles I during the English Civil War. He was released on 28 September 1644, after paying a 1,000 pound fine - although he remained banned from coming within 20 miles of Essex.

Bendysh was appointed on 8 January 1947. On 29 January 1647 the House of Lords confirmed that Sir Thomas was named as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, although upon his entrance to Istanbul he was confronted by the earlier ambassador who refused to relinquish his post, and had to be forcibly removed from office.A Royal Commission set up by parliament followed on 1 February. Bendysh received articles with the Levant Company from 18 March. Sir Thomas set sail and arrived in Constantinople by 26 September.

Bendish

Coordinates: 51°52′48″N 0°18′32″W / 51.879904°N 0.308923°W / 51.879904; -0.308923

Bendish is a hamlet located in the parish of St Paul's Walden in Hertfordshire. In the 18th century, Bendish was a small town. It is about 3 miles east of Luton, 5 miles south of Hitchin and 4.5 miles north of Harpenden. Many services such as the grocers, the 3 pubs and the Church have all closed. Bendish is not a nucleated Hamlet, due to the effects of rural to urban migration through the unemployment of residents as of the result of mechanisation. Farmers houses were knocked down leading to the somewhat staggered placing of the current houses today. There is currently an active phone-box and a postbox available for the public.

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Bendish (disambiguation)

Bendish is a hamlet in Hertfordshire, England.

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