William Hastings,1st Baron Hastings KG was an English nobleman. A loyal follower of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses,he became a close friend and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV,whom he served as Lord Chamberlain. At the time of Edward's death he was one of the most powerful and richest men in England. He was executed following accusations of treason by Edward's brother and ultimate successor,Richard III. The date of his death is disputed;early histories give 13 June,which is the traditional date.
Thomas Chaucer was an English courtier and politician. The son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa Roet,Thomas was linked socially and by family to senior members of the English nobility,though he was himself a commoner. Elected fifteen times to the Parliament of England,he was Speaker of the House of Commons for five parliaments in the early 15th century.
Sir Thomas White was an English cloth merchant,Lord Mayor of London in 1553,and a civic benefactor and founder of St John's College,Oxford and Merchant Taylors' School.
Two sheriffs are elected annually for the City of London by the Liverymen of the City livery companies. Today's sheriffs have only nominal duties,but the historical officeholders had important judicial responsibilities. They have attended the justices at the Central Criminal Court,Old Bailey,since its original role as the court for the City and Middlesex.
Sir Edmund Shaa or Shaw was a London goldsmith,Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and,as mayor,was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV's brother Richard III. He was later knighted and made a member of the Privy Council.
Robert Large was a London merchant,a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers,who was Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament.
Sir Joseph TerryJP was a British confectioner,industrialist and Conservative politician who served as Lord Mayor of York on three occasions. He had previously served as a deputy mayor through his role as town sheriff in 1870,and served as Councillor for York's Monk Ward from 1860 until this appointment. He further acted as a Justice of the Peace for both the City of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1887 until his death.
Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale,1st Baronet,was a Lord Mayor of London in the coronation year 1902,and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of London from 1900 to 1906.
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.
Thomas Murfyn,was a Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London.
Sir Thomas Smythe was an English merchant,politician and colonial administrator. He was the first governor of the East India Company and treasurer of the Virginia Company from 1609 to 1620 until enveloped by scandal.
Thomas Canynges was an English politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1456 to 1457.
Sir Samuel Garrard,4th Baronet was an English merchant and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1710. He also served as Lord Mayor of London in 1709.
Sir William Pritchard or Prichard (1632?–1705) was an English merchant,slave trader and politician,Lord Mayor of London in 1682.
Sir Edward Wotton (1489–1551) was the Treasurer of Calais and a privy councillor to Edward VI of England.
Sir John Shaa or Shaw was a London goldsmith. He served as engraver and later joint Master of the Mint,and as Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London. While Lord Mayor he entertained ambassadors from Scotland,and was among those who welcomed Catherine of Aragon to England. He is mentioned in a poem by William Dunbar.
William Standon,of Wimpole,Cambridgeshire and London,was Sheriff and Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament.
Sir Henry Colet was twice Lord Mayor of London.
Sir John Ward,of Hookfield,Clay Hill,Epsom,Surrey and St Laurence Pountney,London,was a British merchant,banker and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1726. He was an original Governor of the Bank of England and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1718.
Sir William Hewett was a prominent merchant of Tudor London,a founding member and later Master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers of London as incorporated in 1528,and the first of that Company to be Lord Mayor of London,which he became in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His career arched across the first four decades of the Company's history,and drew him inexorably,if sometimes reluctantly,into the great public affairs of the age.
