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| 1701. | Sir Jeffrey Jeffreys. Son of John Jefferies (or Jeffreys), Alderman 1661. |
| 1702. | Sir Samuel Garrard. Great grandson of Sir John Garrarde (Lord Mayor
1601-2) and also of Sir Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor 1621-2). He was the
Lord Mayor before whom Sacheverell preached the sermon on 'Perils among
False Brethren' which led to his impeachment. Sir Samuel was father of
Thomas Garrard, Common Serjeant. |
| 1702. | Sir Gilbert Heathcote. He was the last Lord Mayor to ride on horseback in
the Mayoral procession. Reported to have been the richest commoner in
England, and commemorated in Pope's line 'Heathcote himself and such
large acred men' (Imitations of Horace, Satire II., ii.). He was ancestor of
the Earls of Ancaster, and uncle of Sir William Heathcote, 1st Baronet of
Hursley, and of George Heathcote (Lord Mayor 1742). |
| 1703. | Sir Richard Hoare. See Wilfords Memorials, p. 777. Goldsmith and banker
at the sign of the Golden Bottle in Cheapside, grandfather of Sir Richard
Hoare (Lord Mayor 1745-6) and ancestor of the Hoares, Baronets of Stourhead.
His daughter married Sir Edward Littleton, 3rd Baronet of Pillston. |
| 1704. | Sir Charles Thorold. Son of Charles Thorold (Alderman 1654) and brother
of Sir George Thorold (Lord Mayor 1719-20), his successor in the Aldermanry
of Cordwainer. |
| 1705. | Sir Joseph Woolfe. Brother of Sir John Woolfe (Sheriff 1696-7). |
| 1708. | Sir James Bateman. Son of Joas Bateman (Alderman 1687) father of
the 1st Viscount Bateman and ancestor of the Barons Bateman. |
| 1709. | Sir John Ward. Nephew of Sir Patience Ward (Lord Mayor 1680-1). |
| 1709. | Sir George Thorold. Brother of Sir Charles Thorold (Alderman, Sheriff
1705-6). |
| 1710. | Sir John Fryer. His widow married the 1st Viscount Palmerston. |
| 1711. | Sir Francis Eyles. Brother of Sir John Eyles (Lord Mayor 1688) and
father of Sir John Eyles (Lord Mayor 1726-7) and Sir Joseph Eyles (Alderman,
Sheriff 1734-5). |
| 1711. | Sir John Cass. Founder of the Schools bearing his name at Hackney.
One of the chiefs of the High Church Party in the City. |
| 1711. | Sir Henry Furnese. Father-in-law of the first Lord Edgeumbe and
ancestor of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. |
| 1711. | Sir Ambrose Crowley. A wealthy iron master, the 'Sir John Anvil' of the
Spectator (No. 299). Father of John Crowley (Alderman 1727-8). One of his
daughters married Sir Francis Pile, last Baronet, and another Sir John Hinde
Cotton, Bart., the well known Tory politician, and another Humphrey
Parsons (Lord Mayor 1730-1, 1740-1). |
| 1712. | Sir Thomas Scawen. His daughter married Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet. |
| 1712. | Sir Peter Delmé. Father-in-law of the first Lord Ravensworth. |
| 1712. | Sir George Merttins. He was a banker at the sign of the Peacock,
Cornhill, in partnership with John Mitford. |
| 1713. | Sir Robert Child. Son of Sir Francis Child (Lord Mayor 1698-9) whom he
succeeded in the Aldermanry of Farringdon Without and in the headship of
the bank. |
| 1716. | Sir John Eyles. Son of Sir Francis Eyles (Alderman, Sheriff 1710-1), nephew
of Sir John Eyles (Lord Mayor 1688) and brother of Sir Joseph Eyles (Alderman,
Sheriff 1735-6). |
| 1718. | Sir Harcourt Master. Son-in-law of the 4th Earl of Leicester of the Sydney
line. His grandmother was daughter of Sir Hugh Hammersley (Lord Mayor
1627-8). He was never Lord Mayor, though he became senior Alderman,
being rendered incapable of election by Act of Parliament as one of the South
Sea Directors in 1720. |
| 1721. | Sir Randolph Knipe. He married a niece of John Letten (Alderman 1687). |
| 1721. | Humphrey Parsons. Son of Sir John Parsons (Lord Mayor 1703-4) and son-inlaw of Sir Ambrose Crowley (Alderman, Sheriff 1706-7). His daughter married
her cousin, Sir John Hinde Cotton, 4th Baronet, son of the well-known Tory
politician of the same name. Parsons was one of the leaders of the City
opponents of Walpole. He succeeded his father as head of a large brewery in
Aldgate, where the porter was brewed which is celebrated (after the Alderman's
death) in Goldsmith's lines—
'Where Calvert's butt and Parsons' black champagne
Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane.' |
| [Description of an Author's Bedchamber.] |
| 1721. | Sir Francis Child. Grandson of Sir Francis Child (Lord Mayor 1698-9) and
brother of Sir Robert Child (Alderman 1713-21), whom he succeeded both as
head of the bank and as Alderman of Farringdon Without. |
| 1722. | Richard Levett. Son of Sir Richard Levett (Lord Mayor 1699-1700). |
| 1722. | John Barber. The well-known Jacobite printer, and friend of Pope, Swift,
Bolingbroke and Shippen, to all of whom he left legacies. |
| 1722. | Sir William Billers. His only daughter married the 1st Lord Waltham. |
| 1723. | Sir John Williams. There is a very full account of the proceedings at his
election as Alderman in Sir J. Baddeley's Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward,
pp. 88-93. |
| 1726. | Sir John Thompson. Father-in-law of Sir William St. Quintin, 4th Baronet. |
| 1727. | John Crowley. Son of Sir Ambrose Crowley (Alderman 1706-7) and brotherin-law of Humphrey Parsons (Lord Mayor 1730-1, 1740-1). His daughter
married the 2nd Earl of Ashburnham, and was ancestress of the succeeding
Earls. |
| 1728. | Sir John Barnard. One of the leading opponents of Walpole in the City
and in parliament and regarded as an authority on questions of trade and
finance. His second daughter was mother of the 2nd Viscount Palmerston
and grandmother of the 3rd Viscount, the Prime Minister. Through his
elder daughter he was ancestor of the later Lords Hotham. |
| 1728. | Micajah Perry. He laid the foundation of the Mansion House in his
Mayoralty (October 25, 1739). |
| 1728. | Sir Thomas Lombe. The introducer of silk-throwing machinery into England.
His eldest daughter married Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet, and a younger was
wife of the 7th Earl and ancestress of the later Earls of Lauderdale. |
| 1728. | Sir Henry Hankey. Head of the banking firm in Fenchurch Street (now
mergod in the Consolidated Bank) and father of Sir Joseph Hankey, his
successor in the Aldermanry of Langbourn. |
| 1729. | Sir George Champion. He was passed over for the Mayoralty by the
Liverymen in Common Hall in consequence of his support of Walpole in
the House of Commons. His daughter married Sir Thomas Fludyer,
brother of Sir Samuel Fludyer (Lord Mayor 1761-2) and their daughter
married the 18th Lord Dacre. |
| 1732. | Sir Robert Godschall. Son-in-law of Sir William Lowen (Lord Mayor
1717-8) and brother-in-law of Sir John Barnard (Lord Mayor 1737-8). He was
a leader of the anti-Walpole party in the City and was passed over by the
Court of Aldermen, in which there was a Walpolean majority, at five
successive elections for the Mayoralty in 1739, 1740 and 1741, when returned at
the poll at Common Hall. |
| 1733. | Sir Robert Kendal-Cater. His daughter married Sir Francis Knollys,
Baronet of Thame. |
| 1735. | George Heathcote. Nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote (Lord Mayor 1710-1),
One of the most prominent leaders of the anti-Walpolean party in the City. (fn. 1) |
| 1736. | Sir Robert Willimott. See vol. I., p. 333, for the circumstances under which
in his case the custom that required the Lord Mayor to be a member of one
of the twelve greater companies was broken. |
| 1737. | Sir Joseph Hankey. Eldest son of his predecessor in the Aldermanry of
Langbourn, Sir Henry Hankey (Alderman, Sheriff 1732-3), whom he also
succeeded as head of the banking house in Fenchurch Street. Although
Alderman for 32 years he never served as Sheriff or Lord Mayor. He was
rejected at the poll when a candidate for the Shrievalty in 1742, owing to his
support of Walpole, and he never came forward again. |
| 1737. | Sir Henry Marshall. One of the six Aldermen (Tories and reputed
Jacobites) in the picture of 'Benn's Club.' |
| 1739. | Sir William Baker. Like Sir Joseph Hankey he was senior Alderman at his
death, but did not occupy the chair, or serve as Sheriff. |
| 1740. | Sir Richard Hoare. Head of the banking house in Fleet Street: grandson of
Sir Richard Hoare (Lord Mayor 1712-3) and grandfather of Sir Richard Colt
Hoare, the antiquary. |
| 1740. | William Benn. One of the six Aldermen in the picture of 'Benn's Club,' by
Hudson, in the ballroom of the Goldsmiths' Company. The other five were
Sir Henry Marshall (Lord Mayor 1744-5) John Blachford (Lord Mayor 1750),
Robert Alsop (Lord Mayor 1752), Edward Ironside (Lord Mayor 1753) and Sir
Thomas Rawlinson (Lord Mayor 1753-4), all Tories with Jacobite sympathies. |
| 1741. | Sir Robert Ladbroke. A banker at the sign of the Phœnix in Lombard
Street. He was nephew of Sir Henry Marshall (Lord Mayor 1744-5). |
| 1742. | Sir Samuel Pennant. He died during his Mayoralty (May 1750) of gaol
fever which was caught from the prisoners at the Old Bailey Sessions. Sir
Daniel Lambert (Lord Mayor 1741), Sir Thomas Abney (Judge of the Common
Pleas) and Charles Clarke (Baron of the Exchequer) were fellow-victims
of the same outbreak. |
| 1743. | Edward Gibbon. Grandfather of the historian of the Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire. |
| 1745. | Sir Crisp Gascoyne. The first Lord Mayor to occupy the Mansion House.
His great-grand-daughter married the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and was
mother of the 4th Marquess (Prime Minister). The celebrated case of
Elizabeth Canning occurred during Gascoyne's Mayoralty, in which he took
a prominent part against her, Henry Fielding, the novelist, who was
Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, being a strong advocate of the
truth of her story. The case is discussed fully in Paget's Paradoxes and
Puzzles and Andrew Lang's Historical Mysteries. Churchill, in The Ghost
(Book I., vv. 461, 462) writes:
'And Betty Canning is at least
With Gascoyne's help, a six months' feast.' |
| 1745. | Edward Ironside. A banker (firm Ironside and Belchier) at the sign of the
Black Lion in Lombard Street. He was the last of five Lord Mayors who
died in office within 13 years, the others being Humphrey Parsons (1741),
Sir Robert Godschall (1742), Sir Samuel Pennant (1750) and Thomas
Winterbottom (1752). |
| 1746. | Sir Thomas Rawlinson. Grandson of Daniel Rawlinson, who was first
cousin to Sir Thomas Rawlinson (Lord Mayor 1705-6), and father of Sir
Walter Rawlinson (Alderman 1773-7). His daughter married Sir George
Wombwell, 1st Baronet, and was ancestress of the succeeding Baronets. |
| 1746. | James Heywood. In his younger days a contributor to the periodicals of
Queen Anne's reign, a letter of his appearing in No. 268 of the Spectator.
He also published a small volume of poems. Steele in the Guardian refers
to his habit of twisting off the buttons of persons with whom he conversed.
(See article on him in Dictionary of National Biography by Mr. C. W. Sutton,
who has also printed a much fuller account of him in the Manchester
Quarterly for April 1904). |
| 1747. | Sir William Smith. Son-in-law of Sir William Withers (Lord Mayor 1707-8). |
| 1748. | Sir Stephen Janssen. Third son of Sir Theodore Janssen, Bart., one of the
South Sea Directors in 1720; he succeeded his two elder brothers in the
Baronetcy. |
| 1749. | Slingsby Bethell. Brother-in-law of Sir William Codrington, 1st Baronet,
from whose marriage with his sister the later Baronets are descended. |
| 1749. | Marshe Dickinson. His daughter was mother of Admiral Sir Alexander
Ball, Bart., the friend of Nelson. |
| 1749. | Sir Charles Asgill. A banker of the firm of Vere, Asgill and Co., Lombard
Street. He was father of General Sir Charles Asgill, Bart. |
| 1750. | Sir Richard Glyn. Partner in the firm of Vere, Glyn and Co., Lombard
Street, afterwards Vere, Glyn and Hallifax, which in 1864 became Glyn,
Mills, Currie & Co. He was father of Sir Richard Carr Glyn (Lord Mayor
1798-9) and grandfather of the 1st Lord Wolverton; his mother was niece of
Sir William Lewen (Lord Mayor 1717-8). |
| 1750. | Sir Thomas Chitty. He laid the foundation stone of Blackfriars Bridge
during his Mayoralty (October 31, 1760) on which was an inscription laudatory
of William Pitt the elder, then Secretary of State, the Latinity of which was
the subject of much animadversion. |
| 1750. | Sir Matthew Blakiston. The acceptance of his resignation of his Aldermanry
in 1769 was postponed and at last only granted by a majority of 10 to 9 in the
Court of Aldermen, many of whom were apprehensive of the election of a
supporter of Wilkes as his successor, which actually resulted. |
| 1751. | Sir Samuel Fludyer. His mother's sister was grandmother of Sir Samuel
Romilly, the eminent Whig lawyer, who was father of the 1st Lord Romilly,
Master of the Rolls. |
| 1752. | Sir Peter Warren. A distinguished admiral, who commanded the fleet at
the capture of Louisburg, 1745, and was second in command to Anson at the
battle off Cape Finisterre, 1747. One of his daughters married the 1st Lord
Southampton and another the 4th Earl of Abingdon, from which marriages
the succeeding peers are descended. |
| 1752. | William Beckford. Brother of Richard Beckford (Alderman 1754-6) and
father of the author of Vathek, whose daughter married the 16th Duke of
Hamilton. His wife was grand-daughter of the 6th Earl of Abercorn, and his
sister married successively the 2nd Earl of Effingham and Field-Marshal
Sir George Howard. He was conspicuous by his great wealth, his intimate
friendship with Chatham (see vol. I., p. 292) and his strong opposition to the
policy of George III., to whom he made the impromptu speech inscribed upon
his monument in Guildhall, (the composition of which, however, in the form
in which it there appears, was claimed by Horne Tooke.) He died (during
his second term of office as Lord Mayor) less than a month afterwards. The
events of his Mayoralty (James Townsend and John Sawbridge being
Sheriffs) are well summarised in Dr. Sharpe's London and the Kingdom, iii.,
90-105. Horace Walpole, who was politically in sympathy with him, estimated
him fairly accurately. In a letter to the Earl of Strafford a few days after his
death, he writes 'the papers make one sick with talking of that noisy vapouring
fool, as they would of Algernon Sidney.' (Letters ed. Cunningham, v., 248.) |
| 1752. | John Porter. Son of a French officer who fought in Ireland for James II.
and changed his name from La Roche to Porter, and brother to Sir James
Porter, Ambassador at Constantinople and Brussels. |
| 1754. | Richard Sclater. Great-grandfather of George Sclater-Booth, created Lord
Basing (the victim of Lord Randolph Churchill's denunciation of the incompetence of officials with 'double-barrelled' names). |
| 1754. | William Bridgen. He married (as her fourth husband) the widow of the
2nd Earl of Bellomont. Mr. Welch (Modern History of the City of London,
p. 58) says that from the close of his Mayoralty (1764) till 6 days before his
death in 1779, when he came up to vote for Serjeant Adair as Recorder 'in such
a state of weakness as to need supporting into the hall,' he had 'attended
neither Council nor Wardmote meetings.' He was, however, present and voted
for Wilkes as Lord Mayor in the Court of Aldermen in 1772, and for Glynn as
Recorder in the same year. In the Guildhall MS. 200, 'Rus habitatum
abii' (Terence), is suggested as his motto in reference to his withdrawal
from civic life. |
| 1754. | Sir William Stephenson. Father-in-law of John Sawbridge (Lord Mayor
1775-6). |
| 1754. | Richard Beckford. Brother of William Beckford (Lord Mayor 1762-3,
1769-70). |
| 1754. | Sir Francis Gosling. Banker of the firm Gosling, Bennett and Gosling
(later Goslings and Sharpe), Fleet Street. He had previously been a bookseller. (Mr. Hilton Price in his Handbook of London Bankers, p. 71, throws
unnecessary doubt on this fact.) |
| 1758. | Alexander Master. He retired from the Court of Aldermen on account
of pecuniary embarrassment, and was granted a pension of £100 June 21,
1768 [Rep. 172, fo. 378). |
| 1761. | Thomas Harley. Brother of the 3rd Earl of Oxford of that family, and
grand-nephew of the 1st Earl, Queen Anne's Lord Treasurer. Two of his
daughters married respectively the 2nd Lord Rodney and the 9th Earl of
Kinnoul, from which marriages the later peers are descended. He was a
prominent supporter of the Court party in the struggle with Wilkes and the
Whig opposition. He was at first in business as a wine merchant in
Aldersgate Street, but in 1778 became a banker in the firm of Raymond,
Harley, Webber & Co., George Street, Mansion House (afterwards Thomas
Harley, Cameron & Sons), which ceased to exist in 1797. |
| 1762. | Sir Henry Bankes. His daughter married the 1st Lord Brownlow and was
mother of the 1st Earl. He was passed over for the Mayoralty on account
of his support of the Court in opposition to Wilkes. |
| 1764. | Barlow Trecothick. His widow became the third wife of the 1st Viscount
Curzon. His estate of Addington Park was bought after his death for the
Archbishops of Canterbury. |
| 1765. | Richard Peers. Father of Sir Richard Peers-Symons, Bart. |
| 1765. | Brass Crosby. When Lord Mayor he, with Alderman Oliver, was committed
to the Tower for the part they took in the struggle with the House of
Commons on the question of publishing debates. See Dr. Sharpe's London
and the Kingdom, iii., 108-119. He was an attorney and married successively
three wealthy widows: hence in Guildhall MS. 200 ('Mottoes for Aldermen
1772') the Juvenalian quotation 'veniunt a dote sagittae' is suggested as
appropriate to him. |
| 1766. | William Cracraft. His wife married the last Earl of Castlehaven. |
| 1766. | Sir Thomas Hallifax. Partner in the banking firm of Vere, Glyn
and Hallifax, afterwards Hallifax, Glyn, Mills and Mitton. (The name
Hallifax was retained in the firm till 1852.) |
| 1767. | Sir James Esdaile. He was a strong supporter of the Court at the period
of the American War, which the Whig majority in the Common Council
opposed, and when Lord Mayor refused to put to the vote at Common Hall a
resolution of thanks to the City members for their opposition to the 'weak
and wicked administration' of Lord North. He was the founder in 1781 of
the banking firm of Esdaile, Hammet and Esdaile, Birchin Lane (afterwards
Lombard Street). Sir John Baddeley, Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward, p. 96,
names his 4th son William Esdaile as senior partner, but the style of the
firm is given in the Royal Kalendar for 1782 and following years as Esdaile,
Sir James and Son, Hammet and Esdaile. |
| 1767. | Samuel Plumbe. Brother-in-law of Henry Thrale, the brewer (Dr. Johnson's
friend). In the anonymous (and scandalous) City Biography (2nd ed., 1800),
he is said to have 'possessed nearly as much avarice as old Elwes.' He was
disfranchised in 1773 for refusing, when Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths in
1770, to execute a precept of the Lord Mayor summoning a Common Hall,
but the judgment was reversed in 1775. See 'Case of Mr. Alderman Plumbe'
[Guildhall Library], and Dr. Sharpe's London and the Kingdom, iii., 138, 139. |
| 1767. | Brackley Kennett. He was Lord Mayor at the time of the Gordon Riots,
and his display of querulous ineptitude at that crisis is immortalised in
Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. He was the last in seniority of four Aldermen,
who, as supporters of the Court, were passed over in the elections for the
Mayoralty in favour of junior Aldermen who were Whigs in the years 1772
to 1775. He was a wine merchant and, according to City Biography
(p. 139), had been a waiter at a tavern. |
| 1769. | John Wilkes. His public life is part of the general history of England: it
is admirably recorded in the Dictionary of National Biography. His sister is
said to have been the prototype of Dickens' Miss Havisham in Great
Expectations. The civic history of Wilkes is treated very fully in vol. iii. of
Dr. Sharpe's London and the Kingdom. Wilkes, contrary to the usual
practice, retained his Aldermanry after election to the Chamberlainship. |
| 1769. | James Townsend. One of the most prominent leaders of the Whig party in
the City. In general politics he was an adherent of Lord Shelburne. After
the split among Wilkes' supporters, he took the anti-Wilkes side together
with Horne Tooke and Aldermen Sawbridge and Oliver. There is a good account
of him by Mr. W. P. Courtney in Notes and Queries, 11th Series v., pp. 2-4
(January 6, 1912). |
| 1769. | John Sawbridge. He was a strong adherent of the Whig opposition and in
several successive years brought forward in the House of Commons a motion
in favour of annual parliaments. Wraxall in his Memoirs speaks of his 'coarse
invectives' against Lord North. He was also famous as a whist player. He was
brother to the republican lady historian Mrs. Macaulay, and son-in-law
successively of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bart. (brother of the first Lord
Bradford) and of Sir William Stephenson (Lord Mayor 1764-5). |
| 1770. | John Bird. Grandfather of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury,
and of Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. His wife's brother
was father of William Wilberforce and grandfather of Samuel Wilberforce,
Bishop of Winchester. His sister was mother of the first Lord Carrington
and ancestress of the Marquess of Lincolnshire. |
| 1770. | Richard Oliver. A West India Merchant and one of the civic Whig leaders
in the period of Wilkes and the American war, and one of the conspicuous
members of the Society of the Bill of Rights. In the quarrel between Wilkes
and some of his former supporters, Oliver took a leading part against him and
refused to be associated with him as a candidate for the Shrievalty. |
| 1772. | Frederick Bull. A prominent adherent of Wilkes and conspicuous as a
supporter of Lord George Gordon's Protestant crusade in 1780 which led to
the riots. |
| 1772. | Joseph Martin. Partner in the banking firm of Martins, Stone and Blackwell
(afterwards Martin & Co.), Lombard Street (at the sign of the Grasshopper). |
| 1772. | Sir Watkin Lewes. A Welshman by birth and an attorney in the City.
He spent very large sums in electioneering. He was originally one of the
prominent Whig politicians in the City, but afterwards steadily supported Pitt. |
| 1772. | Sir William Plomer. He is said to have had a pugilistic encounter when
Lord Mayor with Alderman Plumbe; see City Biography, p. 24, where another
scandalous anecdote is recorded of him. |
| 1773. | Sir Walter Rawlinson. Son of Sir Thomas Rawlinson (Lord Mayor 1753-4)
and son-in-law of Sir Robert Ladbroke (1747-8), with whom he was partner in
the banking firm of Sir Robert Ladbroke, Son, Rawlinson and Porker. |
| 1773. | Robert Peckham. Author of 'Considerations on the Advantages of Imports
to the Navigation and Commerce of this Country.' |
| 1774. | George Hayley. Brother-in-law of John Wilkes. |
| 1774. | Nathaniel Newnham. The last member of the Mercers' Company who has
condescended to be a member of the Court of Aldermen, in which for more
than four centuries (1298-1711) it was only unrepresented for the brief space
of three months. He founded in 1785 the banking firm of Newnham, Everett,
Drummond, Tibbits and Tanner, Lombard Street (afterwards Everett and Co.). |
| 1775. | William Lee. A native of Virginia, and one of six brothers who strongly
supported the colonists in the struggle for independence. One of his brothers,
Richard Henry Lee, proposed the resolution in Congress for separation from
the mother country. He returned to Virginia and died there. |
| 1775. | Hugh Smith. He was Physician to the Middlesex Hospital. The (usually
scurrilous) City Biography contains a very laudatory account of his virtues,
touching lightly on his whimsicalities. |
| 1776. | Thomas Wooldridge. He became bankrupt in July, 1777, but retained his
seat as Alderman till February, 1783, when he was removed by a vote of the
Court. The notice of him in City Biography says that 'impudence made him
and caused him to be unmade an Alderman,' and that 'if he had possessed
capacity equal to his effrontery, it is probable he would have made a considerable figure.' A grant of £100 was voted to his widow by the Court of Common
Council, June 2, 1795. |
| 1777. | Evan Pugh. Was partner with William Benn (Lord Mayor 1746-7) in his
soap boiling business, having been (according to City Biography) originally a
porter. He became bankrupt about the same time as Alderman Hart, and
was made with him one of the principal Land Coal Meters. |
| 1780. | John Burnell. Described in City Biography as 'very rich and very penurious.'
He is said to have been originally a journeyman bricklayer, and to have
been advised by Wilkes at a city feast, when he had a difficulty in cutting a
pudding with an ordinary implement, to try a trowel. |
| 1781. | William Gill. Brother-in-law and partner of Thomas Wright (Lord Mayor
1785-6). |
| 1782. | William Pickett. At the Common Hall for the election of Lord Mayor in 1788
he proposed the demolition of Temple Bar, but obtained no support. |
| 1782. | John Boydell. The well-known engraver and print-seller, projector of the
Shakspeare Gallery of Engravings. |
| 1783. | Sir James Sanderson. His second wife (daughter of Thomas Skinner,
Lord Mayor 1794-5) after his death married the religious fanatic, William
Huntington 'S.S.' Their daughter married Richard Burdon, and was mother
of Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, the eminent physician. He was a banker in
Southwark and afterwards in Mansion House Street; Sir Charles Price
(Lord Mayor 1802-3) was later senior partner in the same house. Before
engaging in the banking business Sanderson had been a hop merchant. |
| 1784. | Sir Brook Watson. He lost a leg when a boy by the bite of a shark while
bathing at Havanna. Being a strong adherent of Pitt in parliament, he was
one of the butts for the witticisms of the Rolliad. |
| 'Modest Watson, on his wooden leg:
That leg, in which such wondrous art is shown,
It almost seems to serve him like his own.
Oh! had the monster, who for breakfast ate
That luckless limb, his nobler noddle met,
The best of workmen, nor the best of wood,
Had scarce supplied him with a head so good.' |
| 1784. | Richard Atkinson. An army contractor and adherent of Pitt. He also is
satirised in the Rolliad, where he is referred to as 'the minor Kinson' to
distinguish him from Charles Jenkinson (afterwards 1st Earl of Liverpool). |
| 1785. | Thomas Skinner. The leading auctioneer of his time. 'Peter Pindar'
satirised him in 'The Royal Sheep' as the
'Emperor of auctioneers,
Who, with a hammer and a conscience clear
Pompously gets ten thousand pounds a year.' |
| He was a staunch Whig, and refused to accept the Mayoralty a second time
when elected by the Court of Aldermen in 1799 in preference to Harvey
Combe, whom the Tory majority had rejected six times in succession. |
| 1785. | Sir William Curtis. He was the civic leader of the Tories for many years
and a favourite subject of satire for the Whigs. He is popularly credited
with the paternity of the phrase 'the three R's." City Biography gives a
variant version 'the three C's—Cox, King and Curtis.' Byron makes fun of
his appearance in a kilt during George IV.'s visit to Scotland. He was
originally a sugar baker at Wapping, and established about 1790 the banking
firm of Robarts, Curtis, Were, Hornyold and Berwick, Cornhill (afterwards
Lombard Street). |
| 1785. | Sir Benjamin Hammett. Son-in-law of Sir James Esdaile (Lord Mayor
1777-8) and partner with him in the banking firm of Esdaile, Hammett and
Esdaile. He declined to accept the Mayoralty when elected in 1797 and
resigned his Aldermanry the following year. He was said to have been a
footman to 'Vulture Hopkins,' the miser and usurer. |
| 1786. | William Newman. He was repeatedly passed over for the Mayoralty on
account of his Whiggism at the time of the French Revolutionary War. |
| 1786. | George Mackenzie Macauley. He failed to reach the Mayoral chair for
the same reason as Newman. |
| 1789. | Sir John Anderson. The son of a day-labourer in Hampshire according to
City Biography, which gives a ludicrous account of his appearance on horseback when George III. went to St. Paul's in state during his Mayoralty. In
G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Baronetage it is stated that he was born at
Dantzic, the son of a Scotch merchant who had settled there, and City
Biography admits that 'it is generally supposed' that that city was his
birthplace. |
| 1790. | Harvey Christian Combe. For many years the leader of the civic
Whigs; during the French Revolutionary War period he was returned at six
successive elections for Lord Mayor and passed over by the Court of Aldermen.
He was elected in 1799 after Alderman Skinner, who had been returned with
him, had declined to accept office, and at the close of his Mayoralty was
returned by the Liverymen for re-election, but not chosen. He established
the brewing firm of Shum, Combe and Delafield. |
| 1790. | Sir Richard Carr Glyn. Son of Sir Richard Glyn (Lord Mayor 1758-9),
father of the first Lord Wolverton, and grandfather of Bishop Carr Glyn
of Peterborough. He was head of the banking firm of Glyn, Mills,
Hallifax and Co. |
| 1793. | Sir William Staines. An interesting account of his early life was printed
in the European Magazine for November, 1807, which is epitomised by Sir
J. Baddeley in his Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward, pp. 98, 99. |
| 1795. | Sir John Eamer. For a hoax of which he was the victim, see Mr. Welch's
Modern History of the City of London, p. 148. |
| 1795. | William Lushington. In his earlier days a strong Reformer and one of the
founders of the Radical Society of Friends of the People: afterwards a staunch
supporter of Pitt, and the successful champion of the civic Tories against
Harvey Combe in the bye-election of 1795. He was a partner in the banking
firm of Boldero, Adey, Lushington and Boldero, Cornhill, which stopped
payment in 1812. |
| 1796. | Robert Williams. A partner in the banking firm of Williams, Son and
Drury, Birchin Lane, which later became Williams, Deacon, Thornton
and Co. |
| 1798. | Sir Charles Price. In his later years partner in the banking firm of
Harrisons, Price, Kay and Chapman (afterwards Sir C. Price, Kay and
Coleman), of which Sir James Sanderson (Lord Mayor 1792-3) had formerly
been the head. |
| 1798. | Sir John Perring. Was partner in the banking firm of Sir John Perring,
Shaw, Barber and Co., Cornhill, from 1812 till it stopped payment in 1823. |
| 1798. | Thomas Cadell. A native of Bristol, partner and successor of Andrew
Miller, the well-known bookseller. He is described in City Biography as
'perhaps the first bookseller in London or the world.' He is said to have
contracted asthma, of which he died, through attending service every Sunday
at some one of the prisons during his Shrievalty (Mr. Welch's Modern History
of the City of London, p. 108). |
| 1798. | George Hibbert. One of the leaders of the 'West India interest,' and of the
opposition to the abolition of slavery. He was a great collector of books,
pictures and plants, the sale of his library lasting 42 days. |
| 1802. | Thomas Rowcroft. He was shot by a sentinel of the advanced guard of
Bolivar's army whose challenge he disregarded on the road from Callao to
Lima in 1824. He was acting as British Consul in Peru at the time of
his death. |
| 1803. | Joshua Jonathan Smith. He was co-executor with Lady Hamilton of
Nelson's Will. |
| 1803. | Sir Matthew Bloxam. (fn. 2) Originally a stationer, afterwards head of the
banking firm of Bloxam, Wilkinson, Taylor and Bloxam, Gracechurch Street,
which failed in 1809. From 1818 till his death he was storekeeper to the
Public Stationery Office. He founded the Sheriffs' fund for the relief of
debtors. |
| 1804. | Sir Claudius Hunter. A solicitor, afterwards called to the Bar: his maternal
grandfather was great-nephew of Sir Hans Sloane. His sister was mother of
Cardinal Manning. |
| 1804. | John Prinsep. He had been an indigo planter, and wrote a Review of the
Trade of the East India Company. |
| 1804. | Josiah Boydell. Nephew of John Boydell (Lord Mayor 1790-1). |
| 1806. | John Peter Hankey. Great-grandson of Sir Henry Hankey (Alderman,
Sheriff 1732-3). He was a partner in the banking firm of Hankey, Hall,
Hankey and Alers, Fenchurch Street, and died during the progress of the poll
for the City at the general election of 1807, being himself one of the candidates.
(See vol. I., p. 282.) |
| 1807. | Samuel Birch. He was the head of the confectionery establishment in Cornhill,
and was also a writer of dramas and of a poem called 'the Abbey of
Ambresbury.' He was a strong opponent of the Catholic claims, and published
speeches against concession. |
| 1807. | Sir Matthew Wood. Father of Lord Chancellor Hatherley and of Western
Wood, M.P. for the City. His eldest son, Sir John Page Wood, was father of
Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, and of Mrs. C. S. Parnell (previously
Mrs. O'Shea). The Alderman's daughter gave her name to the City Barge
the Maria Wood which cost £2,000 and was sold in 1860 for 100 guineas. He
was a leader of the advanced Liberal party in the City, and made himself
conspicuous by his vehement support of Queen Caroline, which caused him to
be the butt of Theodore Hook, who satirised him in John Bull as 'Absolute
Wisdom.' He was originally a druggist and afterwards a hop merchant. |
| 1808. | Sir William Plomer. Son of Sir William Plomer (Lord Mayor 1781-2).
He was a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford. |
| 1809. | Samuel Goodbehere. A leading member of the advanced Whig party in the
Common Council for many years. |
| 1809. | William Jacob. A well-known writer on agriculture and the corn trade. |
| 1812. | Sir William Heygate. A partner in the banking firm of Pares and
Heygate, Aldermanbury. |
| 1813. | Robert Albion Cox. He obtained a verdict for £800 damages against
Edmund Kean the actor, in January, 1825, for crim. con. |
| 1818. | Robert Waithman. A Welshman, proprietor of a linen-drapery business in
Fleet Street, where the obelisk to his memory now stands, which a critic of the
time describes as 'supremely contemptible.' (Mr. Welch's Modern History of
the City of London, p. 170.) He was the leader of the extreme Radical party
in the City, and a popular orator. |
| 1821. | William Venables. His mayoralty was made memorable and somewhat
ridiculous by the account of his state visit as Conservator of the Thames to
Oxford by water, which was printed by his chaplain, the Rev. Robert Crawford
Dillon and reviewed by Theodore Hook in John Bull. (See Dictionary of
National Biography, s. v. Dillon, where a good account of Dillon's erratic
career is given, and of his narrative of the Lord Mayor's visit to Oxford it is
very justly said that it 'is so supremely ridiculous that it is difficult to believe
it was written seriously. Such, however, was the fact.') |
| 1821. | Matthias Prime Lucas. He was Commodore of the River Fencibles at the
time of the anticipated invasion by Napoleon (1804-5). His mayoral procession
was exceptionally magnificent. |
| 1822. | William Thompson. A wealthy ironmaster, proprietor of the Pen-y Darran
and Tredegar iron works. His daughter married the Earl of Bective,
afterwards 3rd Marquess of Headfort. |
| 1823. | Sir John Key. Lord Mayor during the Reform Bill agitation and re-elected as a
reward for his Reforming zeal. He was also one of the Liberal members for
the City, elected after the passing of the bill, but his tenure of the seat was brief
and his exit inglorious. He was often spoken of during his mayoralty as
'Don Key.' |
| 1823. | John Crowder. He was proprietor of the Public Ledger newspaper. |
| 1826. | Sir Peter Laurie. A saddler in Oxford Street, having been originally
foreman to David Pollock, the King's saddler, founder of the Pollock family
which has given so many distinguished members to the law, the army, or the
church. He was a very active magistrate, and the object of much banter in
the early issues of Punch. He was also supposed to be the original of Alderman
Cute in Dickens' The Chimes. A nephew, (fn. 3) John Laurie, was Sheriff 1845-6, and
another, Peter Northall Laurie, was one of the last Common Pleaders of the City. |
| 1826. | Charles Farebrother. The head of the eminent firm of auctioneers, whose
business was afterwards acquired by Sir J. Whittaker Ellis (Lord Mayor
1881-2). |
| 1827. | Edward Archer Wilde. Brother of Lord Chancellor Truro and father of
Lord Penzance, Judge of the Divorce Court. |
| 1829. | William Taylor Copeland. An eminent porcelain manufacturer at Stokeupon-Trent, head of the business formed by Josiah Spode, with whom his
father was partner. |
| 1829. | Henry Winchester. During his Mayoralty he refused to allow political
meetings in Common Hall, and in consequence the customary vote of thanks by
the Common Council at the end of his term of office was negatived. Shortly
before his death he became insolvent and lost his reason. |
| 1830. | Thomas Kelly. He was a well-known publisher. See Passages from the Life
of Alderman Kelly, by R. C. Fell, also Curwen's History of Booksellers,
pp. 363-371. |
| 1832. | William Hughes Hughes. His original patronymic was Hewitt: he
changed his name to Hughes in May, 1825. He wrote a preface and notes to
an edition (1834) of De Lolme's Constitution of England. |
| 1833. | James Harmer. The son of a Spitalfields weaver. He was an attorney and
proprietor of the ultra-Radical Weekly Dispatch. His connexion with that
paper caused his rejection at the poll for Lord Mayor in 1840. Lord Broughton
(Recollections of a Long Life, iv., 327), writes (December 4, 1833), 'Alderman
Harmer, the attorney, who sits on the London bench to punish petty larceny,
gets £3,000 or £4,000 a year by being proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch, a
paper which thrives on the worst of all crimes, the destruction of private and
public character.' |
| 1833. | Thomas Johnson. Originally an oil merchant in Aldgate; afterwards
founded the banking firm of Johnson, Mann and Co., at Romford, the failure
of which caused his resignation of the Aldermanry. He died a pensioner of
the Charterhouse at the age of 86, in 1849. |
| 1834. | Sir John Pirie. The Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VII.) was
born on the day on which Pirie entered on office as Lord Mayor. He was
Deputy-Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company. |
| 1835. | Thomas Wood. A solicitor in the City. He was rejected by the Court of
Aldermen when returned at the Common Hall at the elections for Lord Mayor
in 1842, 1844, 1845 and 1846, and in 1843 was defeated at the poll. The
opposition to him was due to the circumstances of his connexion with the
Talacre Coal and Iron Company. He became bankrupt in December, 1847, and
was afterwards provided for by being made Clerk to the Justices at Guildhall. |
| 1835. | Sir David Salomons. He was the first Jew to be elected Alderman, Sheriff
or Lord Mayor. He was one of the founders of the London and Westminster
Bank. |
| 1835. | John Humphery. Father of Sir William Henry Humphery, 1st Baronet
(who married a daughter of William Cubitt, Lord Mayor 1860-62), and
grandfather of John Humphrey (Alderman 1912-). |
| 1835. | James White. He was a merchant in the China trade and after giving up
his Aldermanry lived for some years in China. After his return he was a
prominent member of the extreme Radical party in the House of Commons. |
| 1838. | Sir William Magnay. Son of Christopher Magnay (Lord Mayor 1821-2).
The present Royal Exchange was opened during his Mayoralty. |
| 1838. | Michael Gibbs. He was Churchwarden of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, and
Treasurer of the Ward schools, and was in constant litigation with the
parishioners with regard to the administration of the parochial funds in his
hands. He was repeatedly attacked by Punch. |
| 1839. | John Johnson. His father was the contractor for the Plymouth breakwater. |
| 1841. | Thomas Farncomb. One of the few bachelor Lord Mayors. |
| 1842. | Sir John Musgrove. He was the head of an eminent firm of auctioneers.
Sir John Whittaker Ellis, who succeeded him in his Aldermanry, became his
partner. He was Lord Mayor during the year of the Great Exhibition in 1851. |
| 1844. | Sir Francis Moon. Head of the print-publishing firm of Moon, Boys and
Graves. His eldest son married a daughter of Thomas Sidney (Lord Mayor
1853-4). |
| 1848. | Thomas Quested Finnis. Brother of Colonel Finnis, who was commander
of the Station at Meerut and was killed by the Sepoys when the Indian
Mutiny broke out in May, 1857, during the year of the Alderman's Mayoralty. |
| 1848. | William Lawrence. Father of Sir William Lawrence (Lord Mayor 1863-4),
Sir James Lawrence (Lord Mayor 1868-9) and Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence
(one of the literary champions of the Anti-Shakspeareans in the controversy
as to the authorship of Shakspeare's plays). He and his sons were Unitarians
in religion. |
| 1849. | Sir Robert Walter Carden. Grandson of John Walter, the founder of
The Times. When he entered on his Mayoralty the customary water
procession was discontinued. |
| 1851. | David Williams Wire. A solicitor of the firm of Wire and Child. He was
seized with paralysis very shortly after entering on his year of office as Lord
Mayor. |
| 1851. | William Cubitt. An eminent builder and contractor, younger brother of
Thomas Cubitt, the builder of South Belgravia. He was re-elected to the
Mayoralty at the close of his first year of office, partly as a consolation for his
defeat in the contest for the parliamentary representation of the City on the
retirement of Lord John Russell. He started the Mansion House Lancashire
Relief Fund while Lord Mayor. His son-in-law, Sir William Humphery (son
of John Humphery, Lord Mayor 1842-3) succeeded him as M.P. for Andover.
His re-election to the Presidency of St. Bartholomew's Hospital after his
resignation of his Aldermanry gave rise to litigation, which was not judicially
decided till after his death, the office having hitherto been regarded as tenable
only by an Alderman of London, |
| 1854. | Richard Hartley Kennedy. Was for many years a physician and surgeon in
the Bombay army and wrote Notes on the Epidemic of Cholera at Calcutta,
1827, and a Narrative of the Campaign of the Army of the Indus, also a tragedy
and some poetical fragments. On his return to England he became Deputy
Governor of the Royal British Bank, on the failure of which he, with other
directors, was convicted of fraud and was sentenced to nine month's
imprisonment. |
| 1855. | Sir William Lawrence. Son of William Lawrence (Alderman, Sheriff 1849-50).
He was the last Liberal representative of the City in parliament up to the
present time. He was one of the bachelor Lord Mayors, as also was his
brother, Sir James Lawrence, but, unlike him, he remained unmarried till his
death. |
| 1856. | Warren Stormes Hale. Son-in-law of Richard Lea (Alderman 1803-8). He
was the originator of the City of London School and Chairman of its Committee
from its opening till his death. |
| 1857. | Sir Benjamin Phillips. Father of Sir George Faudel-Phillips (Lord Mayor
1896-7), and father-in-law of Baron Henry de Worms, created Lord Pirbright. |
| 1857. | Sir Thomas Gabriel. Son-in-law of Charles Pearson (City Solicitor) and
father-in-law of His Honour Judge Lumley Smith, Judge of the City of
London Court. |
| 1858. | William Ferneley Allen. His procession on Lord Mayor's Day was devoid
of all attraction, even the State Coach not being used. This absence of the
usual pageantry gave great dissatisfaction. He was the author of a work on
the Corporation of London: its rights and privileges. |
| 1858. | John Joseph Mechi. Was in business as a cutler, and invented a well-known
razor strop; also devoted much attention to agricultural experiments at his
model farm at Tiptree Heath. Author of How to Farm Profitably. |
| 1860. | Sir James Clarke Lawrence. Son of William Lawrence (Alderman, Sheriff
1849-50), and brother of Sir William Lawrence (Lord Mayor 1863-4). The
Holborn Viaduct was opened during his Mayoralty. At the close of his
term of office he was nominated for re-election but withdrew before the close
of the poll. Like his brother, he was a bachelor when Chief Magistrate of the
City, but later, when almost a septuagenarian, he married. |
| 1863. | Sir Sydney Waterlow. Gave the land for the construction of Waterlow Park
at Highgate. |
| 1863. | Sir Andrew Lusk. He was a prominent advocate of retrenchment in the
House of Commons and a rigid critic of the smallest details of the estimates.
He was a Scotchman by birth. |
| 1864. | David Henry Stone. A solicitor and the last Principal of Clifford's Inn. He
was nephew of Thomas Farncomb (Lord Mayor 1849-50). |
| 1866. | Sir Richmond Cotton. The first Conservative Alderman who sat for the City
in Parliament since 1830 (a period of 44 years). He, like Samuel Birch (Lord
Mayor 1814-5), was a votary of the Muses and published a volume of Verse
entitled Imagination and other Poems. |
| 1867. | Sir Joseph Causton. Father of Lord Southwark. |
| 1871. | Sir Thomas White. During his Mayoralty his daughter, who was acting as
Lady Mayoress, was married in St. Paul's Cathedral, this being the first
marriage there celebrated for 120 years. |
| 1871. | Sir Francis Truscott. Father of his successor in the Aldermanry of Dowgate,
Sir George Truscott (Lord Mayor 1908-9). |
| 1872. | Sir William M'Arthur. Amassed a large fortune in the Australian export
trade: was the leader of the movement for the annexation of Fiji and one
of the founders of the London Chamber of Commerce. |
| 1872. | Sir John Whittaker Ellis. During his Mayoralty Epping Forest was formally
opened to the public by Queen Victoria. He was the first Mayor of Richmond.
He was partner with his predecessor in the Aldermanry, Sir John Musgrove
(Lord Mayor 1850-1), as an auctioneer and estate agent, and was afterwards
head of the firm of Farebrother, Ellis and Co., having acquired the business
formerly carried on by Charles Farebrother (Lord Mayor 1833-4). |
| 1874. | Sir Henry Knight. He is now (October, 1912) the senior Alderman, having
represented Cripplegate in the Court of Aldermen for over 38 years. It is
worthy of note that Cripplegate has had only three Aldermen in 105 years,
Sir Matthew Wood having served for 36 and Mr. Challis for nearly 31 years. |
| 1875. | Simeon Charles Hadley. He was passed over by the Court of Aldermen in
his turn for the Mayoralty, but as in the case of Sir Henry Muggeridge (1861),
'subsequent events fully justified the course taken' (Mr. Welch's Modern
History of the City of London, p. 362). |
| 1875. | George Swan Nottage. The only Lord Mayor who died in his year of
office since William Beckford, 105 years previously. |
| 1876. | Sir John Staples. Brother-in-law of Sir John Whittaker Ellis (Lord Mayor
1881-2). He was the author of Notes on the Church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate. |
| 1877. | Sir John Bennett. A native of Greenwich and brother of William Cox
Bennett the song-writer, who claimed the merit of introducing Gladstone's
name to the electors of that borough which he represented after his rejection
by South Lancashire. Sir John was the proprietor of a much-advertised retail
watch business in Cheapside, and was the last person elected an Alderman whom
the Court rejected three times successively. |
| 1878. | Sir Robert Fowler. Partner in the banking firm of Dimsdale, Fowler,
Barnard and Dimsdales, Cornhill. He was of Quaker parentage but joined the
Established Church and exchanged the Liberal politics of his family for strong
Toryism. He was a good classical scholar and quoted from the Iliad of Homer
in the original Greek at his Mayoral banquet in 1883. His only son and
successor in the Baronetcy was killed in the Boer war in 1902: one of his
daughters married Sir Alfred Pease, Bart. |
| 1880. | Sir Reginald Hanson. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Father of Sir Francis Hanson, who succeeded him in the Aldermanry of
Billingsgate. |
| 1882. | Sir Polydore De Keyser. A native of Belgium, and the first Roman
Catholic Lord Mayor of London since the 16th century. He was proprietor of
De Keyser's Hotel, Victoria Embankment. |
| 1882. | Herbert Jameson Waterlow. Nephew of Sir Sydney Waterlow (Lord Mayor
1872-3). |
| 1883. | Sir Henry Isaacs. Uncle of Sir Rufus Isaacs, the eminent Counsel [now
(1912) Attorney-General]. He published memoirs of his Mayoralty and a
work on the teaching of the deaf and dumb. |
| 1883. | Edward James Gray. He and his colleague Sir Alfred Newton (Lord
Mayor 1899-1900) were the last Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Local
Government Act of 1888 taking away from the City the right of electing a
Sheriff for the County. |
| 1885. | Sir Stuart Knill. The second Roman Catholic Lord Mayor since the era of
the Reformation. |
| 1887. | Sir George Tyler. During his Mayoralty the Tower Bridge was opened. |
| 1888. | Sir George Faudel-Phillips. Son of Sir Benjamin Phillips (Lord Mayor
1865-6) and his successor in the Aldermanry of Farringdon Within. He
married a sister of Lord Burnham. |
| 1889. | Sir Horatio Davies. He was for some years the proprietor of Crosby Hall,
then used as a restaurant. |
| 1890. | Sir Alfred Newton. The City Imperial Volunteers were raised during his
Mayoralty. |
| 1891. | Sir Frank Green. Son-in-law of Joseph Haydn, compiler of the Dictionary of
Dates. |
| 1891. | Sir Joseph Dimsdale. An Etonian, and a partner with Sir Robert Fowler
(his predecessor in the Aldermanry of Cornhill) in the banking firm of
Dimsdale, Fowler, Barnard and Dimsdales. |
| 1891. | Sir James Ritchie. Elder brother of the first Lord Ritchie of Dundee (Lord
St. Aldwyn's successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer). He and Sir Horatio
Davies (Lord Mayor 1897-8) died on the same day and Sir J. Whittaker Ellis
(Lord Mayor 1881-2) in the same week (September, 1912). |
| 1892. | Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan. One of the few bachelor Lord Mayors. |
| 1892. | Sir William Treloar. Author of Ludgate Hill Past and Present. Known as
'the Children's Alderman' from the part he has taken in organising the annual
Guildhall Christmas Entertainments for poor children. He founded the
Cripples Hospital and College at Alton, which bears his name. |
| 1895. | Sir George Truscott. Son of Sir Francis Truscott (Lord Mayor 1879-80)
whom he succeeded in the Aldermanry of Dowgate, and brother-in-law of
Sir Homewood Crawford, the City Solicitor. |
| 1897. | Samuel Green. Son-in-law of James Figgins (Alderman, Sheriff 1865-6). |
| 1897. | Sir John Knill. Son of Sir Stuart Knill (Lord Mayor 1892-3): the third
Roman Catholic Lord Mayor of modern times. |
| 1897. | Sir Vezey Strong. The first total-abstaining Lord Mayor on record, and was
toasted as such at a complimentary dinner at the National Liberal Club. He
is the third Lord Mayor admitted to the Privy Council in modern times, the
others being Thomas Harley (1768) and Sir Joseph Dimsdale (1902). He is one
of the leading promoters of 'Esperanto,' which has superseded the less
euphoniously-named 'Volapük' as an attempt to provide a universal language. |
| 1898. | Sir Thomas Crosby. The first practising medical man who has filled the
Mayoral Chair. |
| 1905. | Sir Francis Hanson. Son of Sir Reginald Hanson (Lord Mayor 1886-7) and
his successor in the Aldermanry of Billingsgate. |
| 1912. | Sir John Baddeley. Author of The Guildhall of the City of London, The
Church and Parish of St. Giles Without, Cripplegate, and The Aldermen of
Cripplegate Ward. (fn. 4) |
| 1912. | John Humphery. Grandson of John Humphery (Lord Mayor 1842-3). |