William CRAVEN

1548 - 1618  (70 years)

• Name	William CRAVEN
  Born	1548	Appletreewick, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Noteworthy	Born in poverty and became Lord Mayor of London
  Died	18 Jul 1618	London, London, England
  Buried	St Andrew Undershaft, London, England
  Person ID	I42888	Main
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	William CRAVEN,   b. Appletreewick, Yorkshire, England ,   d. ?, England
  Mother	Beatrix HUNTER,   b. England ,   d. 1597, England
  Married	1539
  Family ID	F30211	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth WHITMORE,   d. ?
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F30212	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1548 - Appletreewick, Yorkshire, England Died - 18 Jul 1618 - London, London, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  He was the second s/o William Craven and Beatrix, daughter of John Hunter, and grands/o John Craven, was born at Appletreewick, a village in the parish of Burnsall, near Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about 1548. The date is made probable by the fact that he took up his freedom in 1569. At the age of thirteen or fourteen he was sent up to London by the common carrier and bound apprentice to Robert Hulson, merchant taylor, who lived in Watling Street. Having been admitted to the freedom of the Merchant Taylors' Company on 4 November 1569, Craven appears entered into business with Hulson, and subsequently quarrelled with him, with an arbitrated settlement in 1583. In 1588 Craven took a lease from the Mercers' Company of a mansion house in Watling Street, where he carried on business with Robert and John Parker until his death. He was elected warden of his company on 4 July 1593, and on 19 July 1594 he was made one of the court of assistants. On 2 April 1600 he was elected alderman for Bishopsgate ward, and on 14 February 1601 he was chosen sheriff of London. On 15 May 1602 he became alderman of Cordwainer ward. He was knighted at Whitehall by James I on 26 July 1603. Craven was lord mayor of London for 1610–11, and the show, which had been suspended for some years, was revived with splendour. Christian, Prince of Anhalt, was entertained with his entourage at the feast at the Guildhall afterwards. On 14 January 1612 Craven became alderman of Lime Street ward; he had moved his residence from St. Antholin's to a house built by Stephen Kirton, in the parish of St. Andrew Undershaft, Cornhill. This house was on the south side of Leadenhall Street; it was leased to the East India Company in 1620 and pulled down, and the East India House erected in 1726. During Craven's mayoralty his name appears in connection with loans to the king. In 1616 Lady Elizabeth Coke, wife of Sir Edward Coke, on occasion of her quarrel with her husband, was at his request handed over to the hospitality of Craven, who must have entertained her at his house in Leadenhall Street. The last public act recorded of Craven is the laying of the foundation-stone of the new Aldgate on 26 May 1618. On 1 July 1618 he attended the court of the Merchant Taylors' Company for the last time. He was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft on 11 August 1618. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Craven_(Lord_Mayor_of_London).