The Aldermen of Cripplegate
Monarch Name Alderman Sheriff Mayor Livery & Notes
William II Aelwold early 12th cent. 1087-1100 Henry I Walter Fitz Tern c. 1130 1000-1135 Henry II Peter Fitz Walter 1174/75 1154-1189
Thomas Rahere 1217/18
Andrew Buckerel 1222-1237 1223-1225 1231-1237 Pepperer Henry III 1216-1272 Stephen Buckerel 1237-? 1227-1229
Bartholomew c.
Castel 1260-1272
c. HenrydeFrowyk 1274/75 1272-1286
Removed to Dowgate 1291 Common Clerk 1284 Judge of the Edward I John de Banquel 1286-1291 Forests 1297 Justice 1272-1307 Itinerant for Kent 1299 Baron of the Exchequer 1307/08 Knighted. Died 1308
Walter de 1291-1307 Goldsmith,MP Fynchingforde London 1298,99
John de 1307-1315 Wynderson Edward II 1307-1327 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 1336 Mercer, MP 1336 Seccheford
Richard 1336-1343 Draper Constantyn
Edward III William de 1343-1348 1338/39 Skinner 1327-1377 Pountfreit
Richard de 1348-1349 1347/48 Goldsmith Basingstoke
Simon de 1349-1366 Mercer Worstede
John de Mytforde 13661375 1364/65 Draper
John Maryns 1375-1377 Grocer
Robert Lucas 1377 Goldsmith
Robert Robert 1378 Mercer Warburton
John de Maryns 1379 Grocer
Robert 1380 Mercer Warburton
Robert Lucas 1381 Goldsmith
Thomas Caerlton 1382 Broderer Richard II 1377-1399 Robert 1383 Mercer Warburton
Adam Bamme 1384 1382/83 Goldsmith
Robert 1385 Mercer Warburton
Adam Bamme 1387 & Goldsmith
John Loveye 1393 1389/90 Mercer, MP for London 1402
Richard II William Evite 1394-1402 1400/01 Draper / Henry IV
John Wodecock 1402-1409 1397/98 1405/06 Mercer
Henry IV 1399-1413 William Cottone 1409-1415 1411/12 Mercer
Henry V Thomas Aleyne 1415-1422 1414/15 Mercer, MP for East 1413-1422 Grinstead 1393
John Botcher 1422-1423 1414/1415 Mercer
Mercer, Kinghted Henry VI 1429/30 + William Estfield 1423-1446 1422/23 1438 MP l439& [1st Reign] 37 1439-1442 1422-1461 William 1446-1461 1448/9 Mercer, MP 1455 Cantelowe
Edward IV [1st Reign] John Stoketon 1461-1470 1467 1470/71 Mercer 1461-147-
Henry VI [2nd Humphrey 1470-1473 1467/68 1477/78 Goldsmith Reign] Hayford 1470-1471
Edward IV [2nd Edmund Shaa 1478-1485 1474/75 1482/83 Goldsmith, Knighted, Reign] PC 1483 1471-1483
Ralph Tilney 1485-1487 1488/89 Grocer
William Isaak 1487-1499 1488/89 Draper
Thomas 1499-1500 1497/98 Wyndout Henry VII 1485-1509 William Browne 1500-1504 1491/92 1507/08 Mercer
William Stede 1504-1506 1500/0 1 Mercer
Mercer Imprisoned Christopher 1506-1508 1503/04 in the Tower by Hawes Henry VIII and died from grief....
Thomas Exmue 1508-1529 1508/09 1517/18 Goldsmith Henry VIII William Forman 1529-1547 1533/34 1538/39 Haberdasher, Knight 1509-1547 1538, MP 1545
Augustine Hynde 1547-1554 1550/51 Clothworker
Mary I 1553-1558 John Whyte 15541558 1556/57 1563/64 Grocer
Alexander 1558-1566 1561/62 1569/70 Ironmonger Avenon
1570/71 + Roland Hayward 1566-1571 1563/64 Clothworker , 91 Knighted 1570
Elizabeth I John Blanche 1571-1586 1571/72 1580/81 Draper 1558-1603 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
Elizabeth I John Swynnerton 1602-1616 1602/03 1612/13 Merchant Taylor, MP / James I Petersfield 1601
William Haliday 1617-1624 1617/18 Mercer
Upholder Fined James I John Hodgson 1624 £500 for declining 1603-1625 Thomas 1624 Leatherseller Fined Overman £700 for declining
Ironmonger Had the James I / Richard Haglin 1624-1632 1624/25 Bible printed in Charles I Welsh
Samuel Cranmer 1632-1640 1631/32 Brewer
John Towse 1640-1645 1640/41 Grocer Charles I 1625-1649 Samuel Avery 1645-1647 1647/48 Merchant Taylor
William Methold 1647 Skinner
Charles I / Christopher O 1647-1653 1649/50 1654/55 Draper Packe Cromwell
Tempest Miller 1653-1657 1656/57 Merchant Taylor
Samuel 1657 Grocer Fined £420 Leagheam for declining
John Heather 1657 Grocer Fined £420 for declining
Thomas 1657 Draper Fined £420 Bromsell for declining
Dyer Fined £200 & Henry Hodges 1657 20 marks for Oliver declining Cromwell 1653-1658 Robert White 1657 Leatherseller Fined £420 for declining
William 1657 Vintner Fined £420 Wormswell for declining
Nicholas Cooke 1657 Innholder Fined £420 for declining
David Davison 1657 Grocer Fined £520 for declining Merchant Taylor MP Walter Bigg 1657-1658 1653/54 Merchant Taylor MP for Wallingford 1659 Richard Merchant Taylor Cromwell Samuel Lewis 1658 Fined £520 & 20 1658-1659 marks for declining Richard Clothworker Cromwell John Robinson 1658-1663 1657/58 1662/63 Knighted & Baronet Charles II 1660 MP for Rye (1660) 1661-1679
Richard 1663 1650/51 1657/58 Skinner Knighted Chiverton 1663
William 1667-1668 Mercer Duncombe
John Forth 1668-1676 1668/69 Brewer Charles II 1660-1658 Sir John 1676 1674/75 Barber Surgeon Lethuiller
Sir John Shorter 1676-1683 1675/76 Goldsmith (1)
Sir Benjamin 1683-1686 Livery unknown, MP Bathurst Beeralston 1685-87
Thomas Foule 1686-1687 1686/87 Goldsmith
Sir Jeremy 1687 Haberdasher Fined Sambrooke £520 for declining James II 1658-1688 William de la 1687 Not admitted Wood
Sir John Shorter 1687-1688 1687/88 Goldsmith (see 1676) (2)
Mary II 1688-1694 William III Sir Thomas 1688-1711 1676/77 169 1/92 Draper 1688-1702 Sharpe Anne 1702-1714 Barber Surgeon & George I William Stewart 1711-1723 1711/12 1721/22 Goldsmith Knighted 1714-1727 1712
George I / Mercer MP for George II John Williams 1723-1743 1729/30 1735/36 Aldeburgh 1730 1727-1760
George II / John Blackeford 1743-1759 1745/46 1750/51 Goldsmith George III
John Cartwright 1750-1767 1761/62 Fishmonger, Knighted 1761
George III Sir James 1760-1820 1767-1793 1766/67 1777/78 Cooper Esdaile
William Staines 1793-1807 1796/97 1800/01 Carpenter, Knighted 1796
George III / Regency (1810) Fishmonger, Baronet George IV 1815/16 Matthew Wood 1807-1843 1809/10 1837 MP for City 1829-1830 & 16/17 1818 1843 William IV 1830-1837 Victoria
Butcher, MP Victoria Thomas Challis 1843-1874 1846/47 1852/53 Finsbury Park 1837-1901 1852-1857 Victoria Spectacle Maker, Edward Fishmonger, Loriner, VII Henry Knight 1874-1917 1875/76 1882/83 Fruiterer Knighted 1901-1910 1883 George V
Girdler, Shipwright, George Briggs 1917-1924 1911/12 George V Loriner Parish Clerk, 1910-1936 Spectacle Maker, John Baddeley 1924-1930 Framework Knitter
George V Edward Framework Knitter, VIII Henry Twyford 1930-1948 1934/35 1937/38 Mason Parish Clerk, 1936 Knighted 1938 George VI
George VI Edward Calcott 1936-1952 1949-1960 Elected to Common Elizabeth Pryce Council 1924 II
Peter Malden 1960-1976 1967/68 1970/71 Merchant Taylor; Studd GBE Knighted
William Allan 1976-94 1982/83 1985/86 Painter-Stainer, Davis GBE CA Knighted Elizabeth II Gardeners, Wax Chandlers and Guild Gavyn Farr 1952 to 1991-2008 1998/99 2002/03 of Public Relations date. Arthur MA DCL Practitioners. Knighted 31/xii/2003 Circuit Judge 2008
David Graves 2008 Solicitors, MA(Oxon)
Monarch Name Alderman Sheriff Mayor Livery & Notes