John Harte (mayor)
Sir John Harte (15??- January 1604) was a 16th-century English merchant who was one of the principal founders of the English East India Company as well as a Lord Mayor of London.[1] He was a native of Kilburn who became a grocer in the city of London.[2] He was elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1579, serving with future mayor Martin Calthorp, and later elected Lord Mayor of London in 1589.[3] He purchased a large mansion, known as Oxford House, that had once belonged to the Earls of Oxford and later to Lord Mayor Ambrose Nicholas.[4] One of his daughters married Sir George Bolles, a later Lord Mayor of London.[5] Harte died in 1604.
References
- ↑ "Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works" pg. 1254
- ↑ Taylor, Richard Vickerman "Anecdotae Eboracenses: Yorkshire Anecdotes" pp. 197-8
- ↑ Fisher, Eden and co. "A Short History of the Lord Mayors' Pageants" pp. 49 - 50
- ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-60_ff_165-7.pdf
- ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-103_ff_1-7.pdf
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| Preceded by Richard Martin |
Lord Mayor of London 1589–1590 |
Succeeded by John Allot |
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