Anthony Shirley

For the English politician, see Sir Anthony Shirley, 1st Baronet.
Shirley convinced the Persian ruler to send a Persian embassy to Europe in 1599.

Sir Anthony Shirley (1565 – 1635) was an English military officer, diplomat, writer and nobleman whose imprisonment in 1603 by James VI and I caused the House of Commons of England to assert one of its privileges, the freedom of its members from arrest, in The Form of Apology and Satisfaction.