The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-10 00:00:00

College, Oxford.
1586. Sir Woiston Dixie, whose pageant was the
first ever printed.
1594. Sir John Smear, " the rich Spencer." He
kept his mayoralty at Crosbpplaos, Bishopegate.
1609. Sir Thomas Campbell. The show revived byl
the King's (James I.) order.
1611. Sir William Craven, son of the gallant sol-
dier Sir Willies Craven, who married the widowed
Quits d Reheats. Thus the eon of a Wharfdale
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dtmatellsl with the sister of Charles 1., and
the present noble family of Craven.
[The late Mr. Thomas Motile, the genealogist,
bra observed that "the ennobled families of Corn-
wall% spiv Coventry, Legge, CnwE!tr TlSnmr
ihmt. Craven, Menham, Poltene7, Rill, Rollo,
Cheese, Cavendish, Bennet, and others have sprang
either directly or collaterally from those who have
been either mayors, sheriffs, or aldermen of London;
end a very. large portion of the Peerage of the United
Kingdom related, either by descent or intermar-
riage. to the citizens of the metropolis.")
1813. Sir Thome Myddleton, brother of Sir Hugh
Wyddleton. The New River brought to London
from Au:well.
1649. Sir Abraham Reynardson I committed to the
Tower.
1653. Cromwell diced with the Corporation at
Grocerr-hall, when he knighted the Lord Mayor,
John Fawkes.
1660. (Restoration of Cheese IL) Sir Thomas
Alley:. All the aldermen who had served during
the iserpatice were displaced.
1688. Bir John Shorter, appointed Mayer by nag
James IL He woe killed by a fall from his beilek
while be was drinking "a cool taakard", on his Irar
to preslaim Bartholomew Fair.
1490. Sir Humphrey Edwin, who went to a erat-
.lloffilie wearing his insignia of ogles, and thus led to
the wing of the Act 8, Goo. 1., e. iv. (See Swift's
This-ef • Tub.)
1701. Sir Thomas Abney, the pions friend of Dr.
Isom Watts.
1704. Sir John Parsons. He gave up his official
toss towards the payment of the City debts.
1710. Sir Samuel Garrard. Three of this name sad
family wen lord mayors in three Queens' reigefe
Mary, Elisabeth, and Anne.
1733. John Barber, the patriotic petals% vim
defeated a ahem* of a general excise. He model
the monument to Butler, the poet, in Weelliblier
Abbey.
1719. Micajah Perry. He laid the first Maori the
Manna Hoses:
1760. Sir Samuel Pennant, died of the Ansi fever.
He wee a kinsman of Pennant who wrote displeasing
Account of London.
1753. Bir Christopher Cherayne, the first hod
mayor who resided in the Mansion House.
1763 and 1770. William Bickford, lather of the
author of Vathek. He died in the latter year. It is
doubtful whether Beekfced eddreend to Gawp IIL
the words sculptured on the monument in the
Guildhall; they were written by Horne Tooke, who
sostrived tort these entered in the City records.
1771. Brass Crosby, imprisoned in the Tower far
dedicating the free publication of Parliamentary
debates.
1776. The notorious John Wilkes : "Like the
hypocrite, his whole public life was a lie."-Lord
Brougham. Wilkes' mayoralty is recorded by the
Obelith in New Bridge-street
1791. John Boydell, who formed as Zagliek
school of engraving.
1797. Sir Benjamin Hamra, deed 1,0001. for re-
fusing tessera as Lord Mayor.
1806. Bir James Shaw, afterwards chamberlain,
of whom a marble status has been erected by sub-
soriptio• is his native town in Scotland.
1814. Sir William Doraville. The Allied Sove-
reigns entertained in the Guildhall-cost 26,0001.
1816.1817. Matthew Wood, the moat popular
Lord Mayor it the present century : he sat in several
parliaments for the City..
18= Jeannine Thorpe; he was butler at the
sari hattetilstep IV., but did not receive the
euremegtoseelley. Hs was a partisan of Qom
IML Outelhat.
Cluistopher Maguey. In 1844, big eassei
see. William, also served as Mayor, and received a
baronetcy, at the inauguration of the New Royal
Exchange, by Queen Victoria.
1824. Robert Waithman, to whom is erected the
obelisk in Farringdonetreet, nearly upon the spot
where he commenced bushiest in London. Hs oat in
mix parliaments for the City.
1825. John Garrett. Londoe.bridge commenced.
1826. William Venable.. The meant of his
" View of the Thames," by the Chaplain to the
Mayoralty, the Rev. Mr. Dillon, a volume of some
160 pages, is now • high-prioed bibliographical
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1830.ity John Key. Invitation declined by King
William IV., end the show and inauguration dinner
omitted, from apprehension of riot and outrage.
1831. New London-bridge opened, and Lord Mayor
Key created a baronet, and re-sleeted daring the
Reform Bill agitation.
1838. Sir John Cowan created a baronet by Queen
Victoria, on her visit to Guildhall, Nov. 9.
1842. Sir John Pais, Bart. Royal Exchange
commenced. Baronetcy received on the christen's,
of the Prince of Wales. At his inauguration dime
at Guildhall, Sir John said : "I little thought, 40
years ago, when I came to the City of London, a poor
lad from the banks of the Tweed, that I should ever
arrive at so great a distinction."
1851. Sir John Musgrove, Bart. Lord Mayor's
show remodelled. Great Exhibition year. Baronetcy
received at the entertainment to the Queen at Guild-
hall.
1854 5. Sir F. G. Moon, Hart. Visit of the
Emperor and Empress of the French to the City.
18556. David Salomone, the first Lard Mare d
the Jewish persuasion. This mayoralty has begs die-
tinguithed by the liberal and enlightened 'lowest the
chief magistrate, of which an address delivered at
eke Mansion-house on the let inst. presented a most
gratifying instance. The address will be found is
the Repress of Monday last : Its main point is a
temperate reprehension of the evil-minded attempts
to exaggerate the nuisance of the Gay Fawkes-day
absurdities. In thematic, of his speech his lordship
stated that recently, through the exertions of the
present City Solicitor, the libellee. inscription upon
the Ideaumeat on Fish-street-bill, attributing the fire
etlateish to the Roman Catholics, had been, by order
of the Omen Conseil, erased. This is an act of
*ties worthy of the age in which the Jewish citizen
axes first admitted to the full enjoyment of his =rai-
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