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Benjamin Deicrowe, or Deicrow, Decrowe, or Decrow (c.1560s - c.1646) was an English merchant and warden of the
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Deicrowe was freed from his apprenticeship by 1588.
He gave his name in 1616 to Deicrowe's Sound, a fjord in Svalbard, Norway, now known as Tjuvfjorden.
He was warden of the Muscovy Company in 1617 and 1627 and was a freeman of the Merchant Adventurers, the Russia and the East India Companies.
He owned property in London, Middlesex and Surrey.
Muscovy Company
The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company russian: Московская компания, Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint s ...
in 1617 and 1627. He was a freeman of the Merchant Adventurers, the Russia and the East India Companies. He gave his name to Deicrowe's Sound, a fjord in Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
(Spitsbergen), Norway, now known as Tjuvfjorden
Tjuvfjorden ( en, Robber or Thief Fjord) is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Negerpynten (Negro Point).
The fjord was originally named ''Deicrowe's So ...
.
Early life
Deicrowe was born around 1560. He was apprenticed to Anthony Marlour."Dr Arthur Dee: Merchant and Litigant"John H. Appleby, ''
The Slavonic and East European Review
''The Slavonic and East European Review'', the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University College London), is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Slavonic and East European Studies. It was establ ...
'', Vol. 57, No. 1 (January 1979), pp. 32-55.
Career
Deicrowe was freed from his apprenticeship by 1588.
He gave his name in 1616 to Deicrowe's Sound, a fjord in Svalbard, Norway, now known as Tjuvfjorden.
He was warden of the Muscovy Company in 1617 and 1627 and was a freeman of the Merchant Adventurers, the Russia and the East India Companies.
He owned property in London, Middlesex and Surrey.
Family
He married and had sonsBenjamin
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...
, Robert and Valentine.
Death
He made his will in 1626 and amended it in 1632. He probably died in 1646 as probate was granted in December 1646.References
1560s births 1646 deaths 17th-century English merchants Year of birth uncertain People of the Muscovy Company Year of death uncertain {{England-business-bio-stub