Its original membership consisted of George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 knights, aldermen and merchants of London. He was one of the founding members of this company, formed on 31 December 1600 as a ‘Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies'. Many years ago I was sitting in a university library reading the remarkable account in the 1862 edition of the Calendar of State Papers for 1513-1616 of how my ancestor Sir John Lyman ventured some of his capital into the what was to become the East India Company.
Sir John Lyman, Lord Mayor of London in 1616 (he lived 1544-1632)
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