The Levant Company, an English chartered company formed in 1581, employed chaplains in some cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Source: List of British Consular Officials in Turkey (1581-1860) (PDF).
Chaplains at Aleppo 1597-1600 ? Maye 1600–1608 William Biddulph 1624–1630 Charles Robson 1630–1635 Edward Pococke 1636 -? Thomas Pritchett 1641–1645 Bartholemew Chapple 1650-1654 Nathaniel Hill 1655–1670 Robert Frampton 1671–1681 Robert Huntington 1681-1687 John Guise 1688–1694 William Hallifax 1695–1701 Henry Maundrell 1701-1703 Henry Brydges 1703-1706 Harrington Yarborough 1706–1716 Thomas Owen 1716–1719 Samuel Lisle 1719-? Joseph Soley 1729–1742 Edward Edwards 1743-1748 John Hemming 1750-1753 Thomas Crofts 1756-1758 Charles Holloway 1758–1769 Thomas Dawes 1769–1770 Eleazar Edwards 1770–1778 Robert Foster 1779 John Hussey 1783 Post abolished
Chaplains at Constantinople c.1611–1614 William Ford To 1618 Thomas King 1637–1640 Edward Pococke 1663–1664 Denham, probably Benjamin Denham 1664-1668 Henry Denton 1668–1670 Thomas Smith 1670–1677 John Covel c.1700 Jean Armand Dubourdieu 1718, 1725 and 1733-1736 Thomas Payne c.1765–1775 Sidney Swinney Charles Nicholson 1794 James Dallaway 1799 Philip Hunt 1802–1804 George Cecil Renouard c.1816 Henry Lindsay 1817–1822 Jacob George Wrench 1820–c.1828 and 1831–c.1835 Robert Walsh
Chaplains at Smyrna 1635, arrived 1636 Thomas Curtis 1652 Eleazar Duncon 1653 Thomas Browne To c.1654 Hales 1654, arrived 1655 Robert Winchester 1661 Clarke 1663–1664 John Broadgate 1664–1669 John Luke 1670–1673 Philip Traherne 1673–1683 John Luke again 1689–1693 Edward Smyth 1698–1702 Edmund Chishull 1702–1710 John Tisser 1710–1716 Samuel Lisle 1759 Philip Brown 1789-1807 John Frederick Usko 1811–1814 George Cecil Renouard 1817–1820 Charles Williamson 1822–c.1836 Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell 1840 onwards William Bucknor Lewis
Other 1720–1732 Thomas Shaw at Algiers
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