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WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764–1833)

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WAITHMAN, See also:ROBERT (1764–1833) , See also:Lord See also:Mayor of See also:London, was See also:born at See also:Wrexham in 1764. After being employed for some See also:time in a London See also:linen See also:draper's, he opened, about 1786, a draper's See also:shop of his own, and made a considerable See also:fortune. In 1818 he was returned to See also:parliament, as a liberal, for the See also:city of London. He lost his seat at the See also:election of 182o, but regained it in 1826, and retained it till his See also:death, taking See also:part vigorously in the See also:parliamentary debates, and strenuously supporting reform. In 1823 he was Lord Mayor of London. Waithman died in London on the 6th of See also:February 1833. An See also:obelisk erected by his See also:friends in Ludgate See also:Circus, London, adjoining the site of his first shop, commemorates his memory.

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