Lord Mayor. Grocer of Ludgate Hill, Bowyer, Alderman of Billingsgate and Governor of the Fellowship Porters in 1786. Came from Wiltshire. Died at Newcourt House, Devon. His tomb is at St Mary's, Market Lavington.
Unrelated to the family who created the current Sainsbury supermarkets, as far as we can tell.
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Thomas Sainsbury
This Hall was built Anno Domimi MDCCLXXXVI {1786} The Right Honourable Thomas...
Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
Cheque & Credit Clearing Company (or, in the form of a booklet) is very helpful: "Daily cheque clearings began around 1770 when the bank clerks met at the Five Bells, a tavern in Lombard Street...
2019: We read the splendid Legacy by Thomas Harding published by Heinemann, a history of the family that built the J. Lyons empire. Below are our notes from that reading (augmented by the Oxford Ho...
1292 - first reference to ‘Free Fruiterers’. First charter in 1606. Their shield shows Adam and Eve with that first piece of fruit.
John Redington was born on 9 November 1819 in Bethnal Green, the eldest of the seven children of John Redington (1796-1848) and Mary Ann Redington née Hicks (1798-1873). On 15 May 1820 he was bapti...
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...
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