Person    | Male  Born 1649  Died 20/7/1737

Gerard Conyers

Gerard Conyers

Banker. Lived in Sheen. As Lord Mayor he decreed that on London Bridge carriages should drive on the left whereas, prior to this sensible ordnance, it was a free for all.

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Gerard Conyers

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London Bridge - information/viewing panel

Unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester, this is actually an "interpretation panel...

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Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–1919.  Born Streatham, son of Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, whose business he joined.  His daughter married J. Arthur Rank.   Searc...

Person, Commerce, Journalism / Publishing, Lord Mayor

2 memorials
Sir Roger William Cork

Sir Roger William Cork

The 669th Lord Mayor of London 1996-7. Roger William Cork was born on 31 March 1947 in Hatch End, Middlesex (now Greater London), the son of Sir Kenneth Russell Cork (1913-1991) and Nina Cork née ...

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Sir Richard Ford

Sir Richard Ford

Lord Mayor of London. Born and buried at Bexley, Kent.  One of the commissioners sent to Breda to request Charles II to return to England immediately.  Began the construction of The Monument in 167...

Person, Lord Mayor

1 memorial
Sir George Waterman

Sir George Waterman

Lord Mayor of London 1671-2.  Son of a Southwark vintner.  A wholesale ironmonger.  The picture source has some information about him and his family. Involved in the slave trade.

Person, Lord Mayor

1 memorial
James Clarke Lawrence

James Clarke Lawrence

MP for Lambeth from 1865, and Lord Mayor 1868-9. In 1887 he and his brother Edwin funded a new building in Kensington for the Unitarians, see Essex Street Chapel. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-L...

Person, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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William Griggs

William Griggs

Photographer. Born at Woburn, where his father was a gate-keeper to the Duke of Bedford. At the age of 18 he came to London, and was employed in the Indian Court of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Hi...

Person, Photography

1 memorial