William Waad

Sir William Waad (also Wade or Wadd) (1546 – 1623) was an English diplomat and administrator.Gary M. Bell, ‘Waad, Sir William (1546–1623)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28364, , accessed 29 Dec 2015. He served as a special diplomatic agent for Elizabeth I of England. She sent him to France to collect papers which were used to convict her sister, Queen Mary. Waad also carried out the questioning and interrogations of political prisoners, often using torture to get the answers. He was involved in questioning Sir Walter Raleigh, members of the Gunpowder Plot, and the Essex rebellion among others.

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Category:1546 births
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