Born Northamptonshire. Apprenticed as a scrivener (like a secretary). Entered business and then set up a bank. Made a fortune from his connections with the slave trade and entered politics. Lord Mayor of London (1679–1680). As president of St Thomas's Hospital he had it rebuilt.
Director of the slave trading Royal African Company and the governor of the colonial Irish Society 1692–1706.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert Clayton
The inscription is quite badly damaged but we found a transcription in a 1776...
Lord Mayor, 1990 - 91. Alderman in the City of London in 1996. Made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1990.
Conservative politician in the City of London, associated with the Candlewick Ward and the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. Lord Mayor of London 1936-7. MP for the City of London 1938 -1945. Also ...
Alderman of St Dunstan's ward. Lord Mayor 1848. M.P. London 1849. Born Montrose, Scotland.
Lord Mayor in 1985.
When Ben was a child his family lived at number 1 Pilgrim's Lane, 1904-6. His time at 2b was during the 1970s and 80s.
These plaques are attached to the north-west tower and also the south-east tower, all duplicated except for "opened to the public" which ...
Called to attend a fire in a restaurant in the King’s Road, Chelsea, he entered the building in breathing apparatus, along with his colleague Fireman Colin Comber, to locate the seat of the fire. O...
In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here with his French National Committee. On 18 June that year he ma...
This building faces onto the central courtyard.
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