William Alington,lord of the manor of both Bottisham and Horseheath,Cambridgeshire,was Speaker of the House of Commons of England,Treasurer of the Exchequer of Ireland,Treasurer of Normandy and High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
Sir Giles Alington was a knight;Lord of the Manor of Horseheath,Cambridgeshire;and High Sheriff and MP for Cambridgeshire.
Horseheath is a village in Cambridgeshire,England,situated a few miles south-east of Cambridge,between Linton and Haverhill,on the A1307 road. It was known to the Romans,and it had for a while a fine house in a great park,but both are now gone. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Bartlow.
Bread Street is one of the 26 wards of the City of London,the name deriving from its principal street,which was anciently the city's bread market;already named Bredstrate for by the records it appears as that in 1302,Edward I announced that "the bakers of Bromley and Stratford-le-Bow [London],and ones already living on the street,were forbidden from selling bread from their own homes or bakeries,and could only do so from Bread Street." The street itself is just under 500 ft in length and now forms the eastern boundary of the ward after the 2003 boundary changes.
St Benet Sherehog,additionally dedicated to St Osyth,was a medieval parish church built before the year 1111,on a site now occupied by No 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward,in what was then the wool-dealing district of the City of London. A shere hog is a castrated ram after its first shearing.
Queenhithe is a small and ancient ward of the City of London,situated by the River Thames and to the south of St. Paul's Cathedral. The Millennium Bridge crosses into the City at Queenhithe.
Robert Steward was an English cleric who served as the last prior of the Benedictine Ely Abbey,in Cambridgeshire,and as the first Dean of Ely Cathedral which replaced it at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Sir John Rivers was a Tudor-era businessman who became Lord Mayor of London.
Sir Martin Bowes was a very prominent and active civic dignitary of Tudor London whose career continued through the reigns of Henry VIII,Edward VI,Mary I and Elizabeth I. Born into the citizenry of York,Bowes was apprenticed in London and made his career at the Royal Mint,as a master-worker and under-treasurer,and personally implemented the debasement of English currency which became a fiscal imperative in the later reign of Henry.
Sir Stephen Soame was an English merchant,landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. He served as Lord Mayor of London for the year 1598 to 1599.
Sir Thomas Lowe was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1622. He was an alderman of the City of London and became Lord Mayor of London in 1604.
Sir Humphrey Weld was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1608.
Sir Peter Probie was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at times between 1593 and 1598. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1622.
Sir Patience Ward or Warde (1629–1696) was an English merchant and early Whig politician. He was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1680,a period when the City of London was in conflict with the Crown.
Sir John Lawrence was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London from 1664 to 1665. He was therefore Lord Mayor during the period of the Great Plague of London.
Sir Stephen Slaney was an English merchant,four times Master of the Worshipful Company of Skinners,and Alderman,Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. He has been called "one of the most picturesque of the Elizabethan Merchant Adventurers".
Sir William Browne served as Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers from 1507 to 1514,and as alderman,auditor,Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. He died in office on 3 June 1514 while serving his term as Lord Mayor.
Sir Robert Chichele was a 15th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.
Sir Cuthbert Buckle was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London of Westmorland origins.
Sir William Robert Pryke,1st Baronet was a British businessman who was Lord Mayor of London from 1925 to 1926.
