Sir William Hawkins

Sir William Hawkins (fl. c. 1600) was a representative of the English East India Company notable for being the commander of Hector, the first company ship to anchor at Surat in India in 1608. Hawkins travelled to Agra to negotiate consent for a factory from Emperor Jahangir in 1609.^[1]

References

1. Marshall, P J (1998). Canny, Nicholas, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol 1: The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 272. ISBN 0-19-820562-7.