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Goldsborough, Sir John (d. 1693), mariner and East India Company servant  

Gordon Goodwin

revised by T. H. Bowyer

Goldsborough, Sir John (d. 1693), mariner and East India Company servant, is of obscure antecedents. A branch of the Goldsborough family was domiciled at Hadleigh near Ipswich in the seventeenth century and Goldsborough bequeathed a life interest in an estate in Suffolk to his wife; otherwise there are no indications of links with the county. He also left her house property in ...

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White, Samuel [called Siamese White] (c. 1650–1689), official in the Siamese service and pirate  

Stuart Rankin

White, Samuel [called Siamese White] (c. 1650–1689), official in the Siamese service and pirate, was probably born in the west of England and was probably a member of a Bristol merchant family. He was the younger brother of George White (fl....