Richard Wickham
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Richard Wickham was an agent of the British East India Company (EIC), who was resident in Japan 1613 to 1618.
In 1614, he accompanied William Adams on a journey to Ayutthaya (Siam). On their way back to Japan, they stopped at Naha for supplies and repairs, but despite Adams' red seal license from the shogunate, marking him as an authorized merchant and entitling him to certain services, the Englishmen were refused. Richard Cocks, director of the EIC factory in Hirado, then complained to Shimazu Iehisa on their behalf, but it is unclear what the result of this complaint was.
In 1616, Wickham purchased a Japanese woman from William Eaton.
