List of freemen of the City of Gloucester

Arms of the City of Gloucester

This is a list of the freemen of the City of Gloucester . ^[1]

17th-century

• 1653 - Robert Payne, member of Parliament.
• 1658 - Ralph Wallis, nonconformist pamphleteer, known as "the Cobler of Gloucester".

18th-century

• 1762 - Benjamin Hyett. ^[2]
• 1782 - John Phillpotts, land agent.
• 1789 - George Worrall Counsel, lawyer and antiquarian. ^[3]

19th-century

• 1835 - George Viner Ellis, anatomist. ^[4]

References

1. Freemen of Gloucester. Gloucestershire Archives. Gloucester, January 2013.
2. Ripley, Peter, & John Jurica (Ed.) (1991) A Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. p. 136. ISBN   0900197323
3. Ripley & Jurica, p. 170.
4. Ripley & Jurica, p. 257.

Further reading

• Langley-Smith, W. (1902) The Freemen of the City of Gloucester and the Corporation: A short history.
• Anon. (1950) "The Freemen of Gloucester": An Account of the Chartered Freemen of the City of Gloucester.
• Ripley, Peter, & John Jurica (Ed.) (1991) A Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ISBN   0900197323

External links

• http://www.gloucesterfreemenandwomen.co.uk/
• https://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/directory/listing/chartered-freemen-women-of-the-city-of-gloucester
• https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/4ed3ea9f-cc89-41ae-a5b4-c0660027dba0