A Companhia do Levante (em inglês: Levant Company) foi uma empresa inglesa fundada em 1592. Elizabeth I da Inglaterra aprovou sua carta inicial em 11 de setembro de 1592, quando a Companhia de Veneza (1583) e a Companhia Turca (1581) se fundiram, porque suas licenças haviam expirado, pois ela estava ansiosa manter alianças comerciais e políticas com o Império Otomano.^[1] Seu alvará inicial era válido por sete anos e foi concedido a Edward Osborne, Richard Staper, Thomas Smith e William Garrard com o objetivo de regular o comércio inglês com o Império Otomano e o Levante. A empresa permaneceu em existência contínua até ser substituída em 1825. Um membro da empresa era conhecido como um comerciante da Turquia.^[2][3]

• 1581–1592 Sir Edward Osborne (nomeado na primeira e segunda cartas)
• 1592–1592 Ricardo Staper
• 1600–1600 Sir Thomas Smith (nomeado na terceira carta)
• 1605–1623 Sir Thomas Lowe (nomeado na quarta carta)
• 1623–1634 Sir Hugh Hammersley
• 1634–1643 Sir Henry Garraway
• 1643–1653 Isaac Penington
• 1654–1672 Sir Andrew Riccard
• 1672–1673 John Jolliffe
• 1673–1695 O Conde de Berkeley
• 1696–1709 Sir William Trumbull
• 1710–1718 O Senhor Onslow
• 1718–1735 O Conde de Carnavon
• 1736–1766 O Conde De La Warr
• 1766–1772 O Conde de Shaftsbury
• 1772–1776 O Conde de Radnor
• 1776–1792 O Conde de Guilford
• 1792–1799 Duque de Leeds
• 1799–1821 O Senhor Grenville

O governo britânico assumiu a Companhia em 1821 até sua dissolução em 1825.

• 1582–1588William Harbourne
• 1588–1597 Edward Barton
• 1597–1607 Henrique Lello
• 1606–1611 Sir Thomas Glover
• 1611–1620 Paulo Pindar
• 1619–1621 Sir John Eyre (ou Ayres)
• 1621–1622 John Chapman (agente)
• 1621–1628 Sir Thomas Roe
• 1627–1638 Sir Peter Wyche
• 1633–1647 Sir Sackville Crowe
• 1647–1661 Sir Thomas Bendysh
• Richard Salway (nunca enviado)
• Richard Lawrence (somente agente)
• 1668–1672 Heneage Finch, Conde de Winchilsea
• 1668–1672 Sir Daniel Harvey
• 1672–1681 Sir John Finch
• 1680–1687 James, Lorde Chandos
• 1684–1686 Sir William Soames
• 1686–1691 Sir William Trumbull
• 1690–1691 Sir William Hussey
• Thomas Coke (apenas encarregado de negócios)
• 1691–1692William Harbord
• 1692–1702 Guilherme, Lorde Paget
• Sir James Rushout, 1º Baronete (apenas indicado)
• George Berkeley, 1º Conde de Berkeley (apenas indicado)
• 1700–1717 Sir Robert Sutton
• 1716–1718 Edward Wortley-Montagu
• 1717–1730 Abraham Stanyan
• 1729–1736 George Hay, 8º Conde de Kinnoull
• 1735–1746 Sir Everard Fawkener
• Stanhope Aspinwall (somente encarregado de negócios)
• 1746–1762 James Porter
• 1761–1765 Henry Grenville
• William Kinloch (encarregado de negócios apenas)
• 1765–1775 John Murray
• Anthony Hayes (apenas Encarregado de Negócios)
• 1775–1794 Sir Robert Ainslie
• 1794-1795 Robert Liston
• Spencer Smith (Encarregado de Negócios)
• Francis James Jackson (nunca assumiu o cargo)
• 1799–1803 Thomas Bruce, 7.º Conde de Elgin
• Alexander Straton (Encarregado de Negócios)
• 1803–1804William Drummond
• 1804–1807 Charles Arbuthnot
• 1809–1810 Robert Adair
• 1810–1812 Stratford Canning Ministro Plenipotenciário
• 1812–1820 Robert Liston
• 1820–1824 Percy Clinton, 6º Visconde Strangford .

• 1611–1624William Markham
• 1624–1630 William Salter
• 1630–1633 Lawrence Green
• 1633–1634James Higgins
• 1634–1635 John Freeman
• 1635–1638 Eduardo Bernard
• 1638–1643 Edward Stringer
• 1644–1649 John Wilde
• 1649–1657 Spencer Bretton
• 1659–1660 William Prideaux
• 1660–1661 Ricardo Baker
• 1661–1667 William Cave
• 1667–1677 Paul Rycaut
• 1677–1703William Raye
• 1703–1716 William Sherrard
• 1716–1722 John Cooke
• 1722–1723 George Boddington
• 1733–1741 Francis Williams
• 1741–1742 Thomas Carleton
• 1742–1762 Samuel Crawley
• 1762–1794 Anthony Hayes
• 1794–1825 Francis Werry

• 1580–1586 William Barrett
• 1586–1586 James Toverson
• 1586–1586 John Eldred
• 1592–1594 Michael Locke
• 1596 George Dorrington (interino vice-cônsul)
• 1596–1596 Thomas Sandys
• 1596–1597 Ralph Fitch
• 1597–1597 Richard Colthurst
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• 1606 James Hawarde (vice-cônsul interino)
• 1606–1610 Paulo Pindar
• 1610–1616 Bartolomeu Haggatt
• 1616–1621 Libby Chapman
• 1621–1627 Edward Kirkham
• 1627–1630 Thomas Potton
• 1630–1638 John Wandesford
• 1638–1649 Eduardo Bernard
• 1649–1659 Henry Riley
• 1659–1672 Benjamin Lannoy
• 1672–1686 Gamaliel Nightingale
• 1686–1689 Thomas Metcalfe
• 1689–1701 Henry Hastings
• 1701–1706 George Brandon
• 1707–1715William Pilkington
• 1716–1726 John Purnell
• 1727–1740 Nevil Coke
• 1740–1745 Nathaniel Micklethwait
• 1745–1751 Artur Pollard
• 1751–1758 Alexandre Drummond
• 1758–1758 Francis Browne
• 1759–1766William Kinloch
• 1766–1768 Henry Preston
• 1768–1770William Clark
• 1770–1772 Charles Smith (pró-cônsul)
• 1770–1783 John Abbott
• 1783–1784 David Hays (pró-cônsul)
• 1784–1786 Charles Smith (pró-cônsul)
• 1786–1791 Michael de Vezin (pró-cônsul)
• fábrica fechada 1791-1803
• 1803–1825 John Barker

Referências

• Calendar of State Papers, Venetian 1581–1591 
• Calendar of State Papers, Domestic 1547–1580 
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• Eysturlid, Lee W. (1993). «Where Everything is Weighed in the Scales of Material Interest: Anglo-Turkish Trade, Picary, and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Jacobean Period». Journal of European Economic History. 22 (3) 
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• Mather, James (2009). Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World. [S.l.]: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300170917 
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• Paget, Sir Arthur (1896). Diplomatic Correspondence and Other Correspondence. 2 vols. London: [s.n.] 
• Wood, Alfred C. (1935). A History of the Levant Company. Oxford: Oxford University Press