Roc

Roc, SIR THOMAS, diplomatist, was born near Wanstead in Essex about 1568, studied at Oxford, and, after holding court appointments under Eliza- beth and James I., was sent as a political agent to the West Indies, Guiana, and Brazil. In 1614 he sat in parliament, but from 1615 to 1618 was ambassador to the Great Mogul Jahangir at Agra. His journal of this mission was partly printed in Purchas and other collections. He was ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1621-28, afterwards represented England in Poland, Denmark, and elsewhere, and died in 1644.