Christopher Clitherow

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Sir Christopher Clitherow (10 January 1578 – 11 November 1641) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1635.[1]

Clitherow was the son of Henry Clitherow and his wife Bridget Hewett. His father was a prosperous citizen of London and a Master of the

Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the same year. Also in 1625 he became Deputy Governor of the East India Company.[2]

Clitherow transferred as alderman to the Billingsgate ward on 7 February 1627 and remained until his death. Around this time he was appointed member of a Commission formed to examine the accounts of moneys raised to repress pirates from Algiers and Tunis.

Member of Parliament for City of London and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[3]

In 1635 Clitherow became Lord Mayor of London when a pageant was performed entitled "London's Harbour of Health and Happiness".

Oxford University which bear his name.[2]

From 1638 to his death he was Governor of the East India Company.

Clitherow died at the age of 63 and was buried in the church of St Andrew Undershaft.[2]

Clitherow married twice. One wife was a daughter of Sir Thomas Cambell, Lord Mayor in 1609–10, and their daughter married Sir Thomas Trollope, 1st Baronet.[5] Another daughter Rachel married Dr William Paule, Bishop of Oxford, and his son James purchased Boston Manor.[2]

References

  1. ^ Clitherow, Christopher, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 10 (wikisource)
  2. ^ a b c d e f London Leaders
  3. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. ^ Knights of England
  5. ^ 'Notes on the aldermen, 1502–1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III – 1912 (1908), pp. 168–195. Date accessed: 15 July 2011

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Member of Parliament for City of London
1628–1629
With: Thomas Moulson
Henry Waller
James Bunce
Parliament suspended until 1640
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