2-636-646 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sir Thomas Stood Before The Mogul', c1908, (c1920). Thomas Roe (1581-1644), English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Thomas Roe was the first ambassador from Great Britain to India, from 1615-1618 Roe remained at the court of the Great Mogul, Jahangir, in Agra, India. Nur-ud-din Mohammad Salim, Jahangir conqueror of the world (1569-1627) was the fourth Mughal Emperor who ruled from 1605-1627. Roe’s primary role was to obtain protection for the East India Company`s factory at Surat. From Our Empire Story, by H. E. Marshall. [Thomas Nelson And Sons, London, c1920]