A champion of English freedom, establishing the campaigning newspaper "The North Briton". In his 1754 'Essay on Woman' he wrote:
'Life can little more supply
than just a few good fucks and then we die.'
Despite this ditty (or because of?) he became MP for Middlesex in 1757 and Lord Mayor in 1774.
Henry Edmund Knight was born in St Marylebone. 1882-3 the Lord Mayor of London. Sources: Wikitree, Grogono.
Lord Mayor in 1985.
Charles Cheers Wakefield was born and raised in Liverpool. (Cheers was his mother's maiden name). Became an oil-broker, founding his own firm in 1899, C.C. Wakefield & Co. later Wakefield Oil C...
Person, Commerce, Lord Mayor, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration
Alderman on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894. Builder and Liberal party MP. Lord Mayor 1863-4. Uncle of Pethick-Lawrence.
Lord Mayor in 1958. He seems to have not used the 'Sydney' in his name.
