Born Northamptonshire. Apprenticed as a scrivener (like a secretary). Entered business and then set up a bank. Made a fortune from his connections with the slave trade and entered politics. Lord Mayor of London (1679–1680). As president of St Thomas's Hospital he had it rebuilt.
Director of the slave trading Royal African Company and the governor of the colonial Irish Society 1692–1706.
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Robert Clayton
The inscription is quite badly damaged but we found a transcription in a 1776...
Born Ireland, brother to Alexander. Moved his drapery business to London in 1857. Liberal MPÂ 1868-85. Lord Mayor of London 1880-1. Supported a Methodist College in Ireland.
Parliamentarian army officer and Lord Mayor of London. Â Born London (according to the ODNB though the picture source disagrees). Â Died Essex.
Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Â The photo shows him as Mayor of London, 1921. 2022: Spitalfields Life has splendid post all about Baddeley and his work. Aged 14 he was appre...
Lord Mayor of London, 1911. Married Lillie Hartnoll in 1900.
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