William Hussey (English diplomat)
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Sir William Hussey (1642 - 1691) was English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Hussey was a merchant and deputy-governor of the Levant Company. and was appointed by King William III as Ambasasdor to the Porte in Constantinople as England was mediating between the Ottomans and the Hapsburg Empire in 1691. Hussey died that same year in Edirne, during the peace negotiations. His sarcophagus remains in the Edirne Museum.
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- A history of the Levant Company - Alfred Cecil Wood
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