Nathaniel Wyche

Nathaniel Wyche (1607 – 23 May 1659) was an English merchant and president of the English East India Company.

Early life Nathaniel was born in 1607 and baptized at Mitcham on 5 August 1607. He was selected as the Company's president in 1658, though he initially turned down the position. He was the first company president of the whole of India, which had previously been divided into four presidencies.

Personal life In 1657, Wyche was married to Anne ( Cranmer) Slane, who was 26 years his junior, but they had no children. Anne, a widow, was the youngest child of Susanna ( Powell) Cranmer and William Cranmer, a merchant adventurer of Rotterdam.

He died at Surat on 23 May 1659 and was buried in the English Cemetery there. After his death, his widow married Sir John Cloberry, MP for Winchester, a younger son of the Cloberrys of Broadstone in Devon. Together, they had "seven children, of whom only four daughters lived to be married."