The Aldermen of Cripplegate

Aelwold

early 12th cent.

Walter Fitz Tern

c. 1130

Peter Fitz Walter

1174/75

Thomas Rahere

1217/18

Andrew Buckerel

1222-1237

1223-1225

1231-1237

Pepperer

Stephen Buckerel

1237-?

1227-1229

HenrydeFrowyk

c. 1272-1286

1274/75

John de Banquel

1286-1291

Removed to Dowgate 1291 Common Clerk 1284 Judge of the Forests 1297 Justice Itinerant for Kent 1299 Baron of the Exchequer 1307/08 Knighted. Died 1308

Walter de Fynchingforde

1291-1307

Goldsmith,MP London 1298,99

John de Wynderson

1307-1315

Elias de Suffolk

1315-1327

Goldsmith

Thomas de Leyre

1327-1331

MP 1327

Richard le Bret

1331-1333

Goldsmith

JohndeHynston

1333-1336

1334/35

Goldsmith

Henry de Seccheford

1336

Mercer, MP 1336

Richard Constantyn

1336-1343

Draper

William de Pountfreit

1343-1348

1338/39

Skinner

Richard de Basingstoke

1348-1349

1347/48

Goldsmith

Simon de Worstede

1349-1366

Mercer

John de Mytforde

13661375

1364/65

Draper

John Maryns

1375-1377

Grocer

Robert Lucas

1377

Goldsmith

Robert Warburton

1378

Mercer

John de Maryns

1379

Grocer

Robert Warburton

1380

Mercer

Robert Lucas

1381

Goldsmith

Thomas Caerlton

1382

Broderer

Robert Warburton

1383

Mercer

Adam Bamme

1384

1382/83

Goldsmith

Robert Warburton

1385

Mercer

Adam Bamme

1387 &

Goldsmith

John Loveye

1393

1389/90

Mercer, MP for London 1402

William Evite

1394-1402

1400/01

Draper

John Wodecock

1402-1409

1397/98

1405/06

Mercer

William Cottone

1409-1415

1411/12

Mercer

Thomas Aleyne

1415-1422

1414/15

Mercer, MP for East Grinstead 1393

John Botcher

1422-1423

1414/1415

Mercer

William Estfield

1423-1446

1422/23

1429/30 + 37

Mercer, Kinghted 1438  MP l439& 1439-1442

William Cantelowe

1446-1461

1448/9

Mercer, MP 1455

John Stoketon

1461-1470

1467

1470/71

Mercer

Humphrey Hayford

1470-1473

1467/68

1477/78

Goldsmith

Edmund Shaa

1478-1485

1474/75

1482/83

Goldsmith, Knighted, PC 1483

Ralph Tilney

1485-1487

1488/89

Grocer

William Isaak

1487-1499

1488/89

Draper

Thomas Wyndout

1499-1500

1497/98

William Browne

1500-1504

1491/92

1507/08

Mercer

William Stede

1504-1506

1500/0 1

Mercer

Christopher Hawes

1506-1508

1503/04

Mercer  Imprisoned in the Tower by Henry VIII and died from grief....

Thomas Exmue

1508-1529

1508/09

1517/18

Goldsmith

William Forman

1529-1547

1533/34

1538/39

Haberdasher, Knight 1538, MP 1545

Augustine Hynde

1547-1554

1550/51

Clothworker

John Whyte

15541558

1556/57

1563/64

Grocer

Alexander Avenon

1558-1566

1561/62

1569/70

Ironmonger

Roland Hayward

1566-1571

1563/64

1570/71 + 91

Clothworker, Knighted 1570

John Blanche

1571-1586

1571/72

1580/81

Draper

William Etkyn

1586-1588

1586/87

Mercer

John Catcher

1588-1596

1587/88

Pewterer

Thomas Skinner

1596-1597

1587/88

1596

Clothworker

Robert Hampson

1597-1602

1598/99

Merchant Taylor

John Swynnerton

1602-1616

1602/03

1612/13

Merchant Taylor, MP Petersfield 1601

William Haliday

1617-1624

1617/18

Mercer

John Hodgson

1624

Upholder  Fined £500 for declining

Thomas Overman

1624

Leatherseller  Fined £700 for declining

Richard Haglin

1624-1632

1624/25

Ironmonger  Had the Bible printed in Welsh

Samuel Cranmer

1632-1640

1631/32

Brewer

John Towse

1640-1645

1640/41

Grocer

Samuel Avery

1645-1647

1647/48

Merchant Taylor

William Methold

1647

Skinner

Christopher Packe

1647-1653

1649/50

1654/55

Draper

Tempest Miller

1653-1657

1656/57

Merchant Taylor

Samuel Leagheam

1657

Grocer  Fined £420 for declining

John Heather

1657

Grocer Fined £420 for declining

Thomas Bromsell

1657

Draper  Fined £420 for declining

Henry Hodges

1657

Dyer  Fined £200 & 20 marks for declining 

Robert White

1657

Leatherseller  Fined £420 for declining

William Wormswell

1657

Vintner  Fined £420 for declining

Nicholas Cooke

1657

Innholder  Fined £420 for declining

David Davison

1657

Grocer  Fined £520 for declining

Walter Bigg

1657-1658

1653/54

Merchant Taylor  MP for Wallingford 1659

Samuel Lewis

1658

Merchant Taylor  Fined £520 & 20 marks for declining

John Robinson

1658-1663

1657/58

1662/63

Clothworker Knighted & Baronet 1660 MP for Rye 1661-1679

Richard Chiverton

1663

1650/51

1657/58

Skinner Knighted 1663

William Duncombe

1667-1668

Mercer

John Forth

1668-1676

1668/69

Brewer

Sir John Lethuiller

1676

1674/75

Barber Surgeon

Sir John Shorter (1)

1676-1683

1675/76

Goldsmith

Sir Benjamin Bathurst

1683-1686

Livery unknown, MP Beeralston 1685-87

Thomas Foule

1686-1687

1686/87

Goldsmith

Sir Jeremy Sambrooke

1687

Haberdasher Fined £520 for declining

William de la Wood

1687

Not admitted

Sir John Shorter (2)

1687-1688

1687/88

Goldsmith (see 1676)

Sir Thomas Sharpe

1688-1711

1676/77

169 1/92

Draper

WilliamStewart

1711-1723

1711/12

1721/22

Barber Surgeon & Goldsmith Knighted 1712

John Williams

1723-1743

1729/30

1735/36

Mercer MP for Aldeburgh 1730

John Blackeford

1743-1759

1745/46

1750/51

Goldsmith

John Cartwright

1750-1767

1761/62

Fishmonger, Knighted 1761

Sir James Esdaile

1767-1793

1766/67

1777/78

Cooper

William Staines

1793-1807

1796/97

1800/01

Carpenter, Knighted 1796

Matthew Wood

1807-1843

1809/10

1815/16 & 16/17

Fishmonger, Baronet 1837 MP for City 1818 1843

Thomas Challis

1843-1874

1846/47

1852/53

Butcher, MP Finsbury Park 1852-1857

Henry Knight

1874-1917

1875/76

1882/83

Spectacle Maker, Fishmonger, Loriner, Fruiterer  Knighted 1883

George Briggs

1917-1924

1911/12

Girdler, Shipwright, Loriner  Parish Clerk, Spectacle Maker,

John Baddeley

1924-1930

Framework Knitter

Henry Twyford

1930-1948

1934/35

1937/38

Framework Knitter, Mason  Parish Clerk, Knighted 1938

Edward Calcott Pryce

1949-1960

Elected to Common Council 1924

Peter Malden Studd GBE

1960-1976

1967/68

1970/71

Merchant Taylor; Knighted

William Allan Davis GBE CA

1976-94

1982/83

1985/86

Painter-Stainer, Knighted

Gavyn Farr Arthur MA DCL

1991-2008

1998/99

2002/03

 Gardeners, Wax Chandlers and Guild of Public Relations Practitioners. Knighted 31/xii/2003 Circuit Judge 2008