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...
Labour Party Life peer. Lord Mayor 1972-3. Born Southampton. After WW2 joined contractors Trollope & Colls, becoming joint-managing director and chairman in 1963 and retiring in 1968 when the ...
Lord Mayor of London 1671-2. Â Son of a Southwark vintner. Â AÂ wholesale ironmonger. Â The picture source has some information about him and his family. Involved in the slave trade.
Lord Mayor of London. Born and buried at Bexley, Kent. Â One of the commissioners sent to Breda to request Charles IIÂ to return to England immediately. Â Began the construction of The Monument in 167...
Businessman and politician. Born in Maidstone. He founded a company of paper merchants. Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894 and later, Chair. Elected as Lord Mayor of London in 1900.
Sheriff of the City of London, 1894. Born Cornhill.  Lord Mayor 1901-2. MP for the City of London from 1900 to 1906. Married Beatrice Eliza Bower Holdsworth in 1873. Our correspondent, Alicia Col...
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