Nicholas Crisp, 1st baronet ( c1599 - 1666 )

Birth: c1599 Death: London, England, Europe (26 February 1666) Burial: Church of St Mildred, Bread Street, London, England, Europe Occupation: Merchant; enslaver Career: Held substantial stocks in the East India Company and served multiple years on its governing body (1623-); was instrumental in developing a new monopoly trading company for produce and enslaved people between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Blanco, the Guinea Company (1630s); appointed collectors of impositions in Western ports (1638); elected to short and long parliaments as MP for Winchelsea, though he was expelled in 1641 as a monopolist; invested in the parliamentary Sea Adventure to Ireland (1642); moved to Oxford during the Civil War (1643); fled to France (1646); selected member of the committee to meet Charles II at Breda (1660); was offered variety of grants and customs revenues after the Restoration Honours: Kt 1640 Baronetcy 1665 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 18/03/1663 Proposer: Daniel Colwall Other RSActivity: Proposed on 11 March 1663.