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See also:WHITTINGTON, See also:RICHARD (d. 1423) , See also:mayor of See also:London, described himself as son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and See also:Joan (See also:Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vi. 740). This enables him to be identified as the third son of See also:Sir William Whittington of Pauntley in See also:Gloucestershire, a See also:knight of See also:good See also:family, who married after 1355 Joan, daughter of William See also:Mansel, and widow of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Berkeley of Cubberley. Consequently Richard was a very See also:young See also:man when he is mentioned in 1379 as subscribing five marks to a See also:city See also:loan. He was a See also:mercer by See also:trade, and clearly entered on his commercial career under favourable circumstances. He married Alice, daughter of Sir No Fitzwaryn, a See also:Dorset knight of considerable See also:property. Whittington sat in the See also:common See also:council as a representative of Coleman See also:Street See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
Ward, was elected See also:alderman of Broad Street in See also:March 1393, and served as See also:sheriff in 1393-1394. When See also:Adam Bamme, the mayor, died in See also:June 1397, Whittington was appointed by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to succeed him, and in See also:October was elected mayor for the ensuing See also:year. He had acquired See also:great See also:wealth and much commercial importance, and was mayor of the See also:staple at London and See also:Calais. He made frequent large loans both to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. and Henry V., and according to the See also:legend, when he gave a banquet to the latter king and his See also:queen in 1421, completed the entertainment by burning bonds for 6o,000, which he had taken up and discharged. Henry V. employed him to superintend the See also:expenditure of See also:money on completing See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. But except as a London commercial See also:magnate Whittington took no great See also:part in public affairs. He was mayor for a third See also:term in 1406-1407, and for a See also:fourth in 1419-1420. He died in March 1423. His wife had predeceased him leaving no See also:children, and Whittington bequeathed the whole of his vast See also:fortune to charitable and public purposes. In his lifetime he had joined in procuring Leadenhall for the city, and had See also:borne nearly all the cost of See also:building the Greyfriars Library. In his last year as mayor he had been shocked by the foul See also:state of Newgate See also:prison, and one of the first See also:works undertaken by his executors was its rebuilding. His executors, See also:chief of whom was See also:John See also:Carpenter, the famous See also:town clerk. also contributed to the cost of See also:glazing and paving the new See also:Guildhall, and paid See also:half the expense of building the library there; they repaired St See also:Bartholomew's See also:hospital, and provided bosses for See also:water at Billingsgate and Cripplegate. But the chief of Whittington's See also:foundations was his See also:college at St See also:Michael, Paternoster See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and the adjoining hospital. The college was dissolved at the See also:Reformation, but the hospital or almshouses are still maintained by the Mercers' See also:Company at See also:Highgate. Whittington was buried at St Michael's church. See also:Stow relates that his See also:tomb was spoiled during the reign of See also:Edward VI., but that under See also:Mary the parishioners were compelled to restore it (Survey, i. 243). Whittington had a See also:house near St Michael's church; it is doubtful whether he had any connexion with the so-called Whittington See also:Palace in See also:Hart Street, See also:Mark See also:Lane. There is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that he was ever knighted; Stow does not See also:call him Sir Richard. Much of Whittington's fame was probably due to the magnificence of his charities. But a writer of the next See also:generation bears See also:witness to his commercial success in A Libell of See also:English Policy by styling him " the sunne of marchaundy, that lodestarre and chief-chosen See also:flower."
" See also:Pen and See also:paper may not me suffice
Him to describe, so high he was of See also:price."
The Richard Whittington of See also:history is thus very different from the See also:Dick Whittington of popular legend, which makes him a poor See also:orphan employed as a scullion by the See also:rich See also:merchant, Sir See also:Hugh Fitzwarren, who ventures the See also:cat, his only See also:possession, on one of his See also:master's See also:ships. Distressed by See also:ill-treatment he runs away, but turns back when he hears from See also:Holloway the prophetic peal of See also:Bow bells. He returns to find that his venture has brought him a fortune, marries his master's daughter, andsucceeds to his business. The legend is not referred to by Stow, whose love for exposing fables would assuredly have prompted him to See also:notice it if it had been well established when he wrote. The first reference to the See also:story comes with the licensing in 16o5 of a See also:play, now lost, The History of Richard Whittington, of his See also:lowe byrth, his great fortune. Thomas See also:Heywood in 1606 makes one of the characters in If you know not me you know nobody, allude to the legend, to be rebuked by another because " they did more wrong to the See also:gentleman." " The legend of Whittington," probably meaning the play of 16o5, is also mentioned by See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher in 1611 in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The story was then no doubt popular. When a little later See also:Robert Elstracke, the engraver, published a supposed portrait of Whittington with his See also:hand resting on a See also:skull, he had in deference to the public See also:fancy to substitute a cat; copies in the first state are very rare. Attempts have been made to explain the story as possibly referring to vessels called " See also:cats," which were employed in the See also:North See also:Sea trade, or to the See also:French achat (See also:purchase). But Thomas Keightley traced the cat story in See also:Persian, Danish and See also:Italian folk-See also:lore at least as far back as the r3th See also:century. The assertion that a carved figure of a cat existed on Newgate See also:gaol before the great See also:fire is an unsupported See also:assumption.
End of Article: WHITTINGTON, RICHARD (d. 1423)
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