Benjamin Deicrowe, or Deicrow, Decrowe, or Decrow (c.1560s - c.1646) was an English merchant and warden of the

Muscovy Company The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; ) was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major Chartered company, chartered joint-stock company, the precursor of the type of business ...

in 1617 and 1627. He was a freeman of the Merchant Adventurers, the Russia and the East India Companies. He gave his name to Deicrowe's Sound, a fjord in

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(Spitsbergen), Norway, now known as

Tjuvfjorden Tjuvfjorden () is a 45 km long and up to 30 km wide fjord separating Edgeøya’s two southern promontories, Kvalpynten (Whale Point) and Svarthuken (old name: Negro Point). The fjord was originally named ''Deicrowe's Sound'' by the En ...

Early life

Deicrowe was born around 1560. He was apprenticed to Anthony Marlour."Dr Arthur Dee: Merchant and Litigant"
John H. Appleby, ''

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'', Vol. 57, No. 1 (January 1979), pp. 32-55.

Career

Deicrowe was freed from his apprenticeship by 1588. He gave his name in 1616 to Deicrowe's Sound, a fjord in Svalbard, Norway, now known as Tjuvfjorden. He was warden of the Muscovy Company in 1617 and 1627 and was a freeman of the Merchant Adventurers, the Russia and the East India Companies. He owned property in London, Middlesex and Surrey.

Family

He married and had sons

Benjamin Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

, Robert and Valentine.

Death

He made his will in 1626 and amended it in 1632. He probably died in 1646 as probate was granted in December 1646.

References

1560s births 1646 deaths 17th-century English merchants Year of birth uncertain Muscovy Company people Year of death uncertain {{England-business-bio-stub