Sir Thomas Glover was English ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1606 to 1611.
According to Scottish author and traveller William Lithgow,[1] Glover was born to an English father and a Polish mother and was born and raised in Constantinople, where Glover served as secretary to the English ambassadors Edward Barton and Sir Henry Lello before succeeding Lello as ambassador on December 23, 1606.
[3] In 1611 Glover was recalled to London at the suggestion of Anthony Shirley, accused of being more of an agent for Spain than England.
[4] The charges were subsequently dropped and he was rewarded for his service to the state, suggesting that his support of Bogdan had been sanctioned.
Glover's wife Anne Lambe, an English woman he had met and married in England and brought to Constantinople, died in 1608 but her body was preserved in bran and not buried until 1612 [5]