Sir William Hussey was English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

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Hussey was the son of Thomas Hussey

Thomas Hussey (Grantham MP)

Thomas Hussey was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.Hussey was the son of Sir Edward Hussey, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Auton, daughter of George Auton....

 and his wife Rhoda Chapman, daughter of Thomas Chapman, of London. He was a merchant and deputy-governor of the Levant Company

Levant Company

The Levant Company, or Turkey Company, was an English chartered company formed in 1581, to regulate English trade with Turkey and the Levant...

  and was appointed by King William III

William III of England

William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...

 as Ambasasdor to the Porte in Constantinople

Constantinople

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 as England was mediating between the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire in 1691. Hussey died that same year in Edirne

Edirne

Edirne is a city in Eastern Thrace, the northwestern part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453, before Constantinople became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne...

, during the peace negotiations. His sarcophagus remains in the Edirne Museum.