Nicolò Tron (diplomat)
Nicolò Tron (21 September 1685 – 31 January 1771) was an Italian politician, businessman and agronomist, a citizen of the Republic of Venice. A Venetian noble, Tron was a young ambassador of the Republic of Venice at the English court; back in Italy, he tried to import the technological and organizational innovations seen abroad, founding the Schio woollen mill, organizing his agricultural estates with modern methods, and activating himself in using his political influence to favour and encourage his own Venetian businesses. Life He was born in 1685 in Padua from a Tron family, noble Venetian family, descending from the Nicolò Tron, homonym doge of Venice who had lived two centuries before. He attended the Nobles’ board of Parma and when he was young he began his political career as a ''Savio agli Ordini'', the first senatorial rule which a young patrician could aspire. In 1711 Nicolò married Chiara Grimani family, Grimani of Francesco, one of the most beautiful ladie ...
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