John Wyborne

Sir John Wyborne was an English governor of Bombay during the period of the Honourable East India Company. He assumed the office in 1686 and left office on 4 February 1690.

A friend of Samuel Pepys, he was sent to India by the East India Company to deal with piracy.[1]

Notes
  1. Pepys, Samuel (2006). The Letters of Samuel Pepys, 1656-1703. Boydell Press. p. 180. ISBN 9781843831976. Retrieved 18 March 2018.


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