Sir Thomas Glover was English ambassador to the

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of the

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from 1606 to 1611. Glover was born to a Protestant family, his great uncle had been burnt at the stake for his beliefs during the reign of Queen Mary, while during the reign of

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his father rose to become

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. According to Scottish author and traveller William Lithgow, Glover was born to an English father and a Polish mother and was born and raised in Constantinople, where Glover served as secretary to the English ambassadors Edward Barton and Sir Henry Lello before succeeding Lello as ambassador on December 23, 1606. Fluent in Turkish, Greek, Italian and Polish, he was a competent diplomat and respected in the court. He is known to have imprisoned the Catholic traveler and scholar

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for speaking out against Elizabeth. The English writer

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served as his secretary for a period and he also gave lodging to other travellers and writers including the aforementioned Lithgow and

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. Glover was recalled to London in a company letter dated September 17, 1611. Glover's wife Anne Lambe, an English woman he had met and married in England and brought her to Constantinople, died of the Plague 1608 but was not buried until 1612 in the city.

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