The John Bargrave Collection
Robert Cecil (1 Jun 1563 - 24 May 1612)
Politician and courtier. He was "perhaps the person who first aroused Tradescant's collecting instincts" when, in 1607, he "had dispatched a young man on an East India Company ship to 'go for parrots, monkeys and marmosets'" (Leith-Ross, 164). Tradescant himself acquired for Cecil "an artificial bird and a great buffalo's horn" in France (164). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4980 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury Relevant locations: N/A St. Martin's LaneResidence at Salisbury House
People linked to person: Robert Cecil was a son of William Cecil (1520/21-1598)
Rowland Buckett (bap. 1571-1639) was a employed by Robert Cecil
Richard Butler (-) was a employed by Robert Cecil
William Cecil (28 Mar 1591-3 Dec 1668) was a son of Robert Cecil
Baptist Hicks (1551-18 Oct 1629) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Robert Cecil
Levinus Munck (c.1568-1623) was a employed by Robert Cecil
Henry Wotton (1568-Dec 1639) was a source of object(s) for Robert Cecil