SMYTHE, Thomas II (c.1558-1625), of Fenchurch Street, London and Sutton-at-Hone, Kent.

Freeman, Skinners’ Co. by 1580, Haberdashers’ Co. by 1580, master, Haberdashers’ 1599 – 1600; customer of London, auditor 1597 – 98, alderman 1599 – 1601, sheriff Nov. 1600 – Feb. 1601; capt. of city trained bands; treasurer, St. Bartholomew’s hosp. 1597 – 1601; trade commr. to negotiate with the Dutch 1596, 1598, 1619, with the Empire 1603; member of Merchant Adventurers; gov. Muscovy Co. by 1600; member of Levant Co., gov. by 1600; gov. E.I. Co. 1600 – 01, 1603 – 05, 1607 – 21; gov. North West Passage Co.; treasurer, Virginia Co. 1609 – 19; gov. of Somers Is. Co. 1615 – d.; ambassador to Russia 1604 – 05; jt. receiver of duchy of Cornwall Apr. 1604; receiver for Dorset and Somerset May 1604; commr. for navy reform 1619.DNB; Arch. Cant. xx. 82 seq.; G. E. Cokayne, Ld. Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601–25, pp. 4–5; Beaven, Aldermen, ii. 47; CSP Dom. 1598–1601, p. 72; 1603–10, pp. 93, 112, 114; CSP Col. ii. 238; W. Scott, Jt. Stock Cos. to 1720, ii. 250, 257, 262; HMC Hatfield, xvi. 185–6; xvii. 69, 433; APC, 1618–19, pp. 174, 434; Voyages of Wm. Baffin, ed. Markham (Hakluyt Soc. lxiii), intro. ii-ix.