✍️ Author Biography
Thomas Riccio
📅 1523 – 1590
🌍 English
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Thomas Randolph (1523–1590) was an English ambassador serving Elizabeth I of England. Most of his professional life he spent in Scotland at the courts of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James VI. While in Scotland, he was embroiled in marriage projects and several upheavals. In 1568–1569, he was sent on a special embassy to Russia, visiting the court of Ivan the Terrible.
Randolph was also a Member of Parliament: for New Romney in 1558, Maidstone 1584, 1586 and 1589, Grantham 1559 and St Ives …