Walter Baker Clode

Name: Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Author: Walter Baker Clode

Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

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“Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900”, published in 1889, is a work by Walter Baker Clode. It explores elements such as the Merchant Taylors' Company, Burnsall and Craven.

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ He had formerly lived at Bacon House, Foster Lane, and at his death owned an estate at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where he was buried. Fleetwood was a hard-working judge, and was disappointed at not receiving higher preferment. His connection with Leicester was insisted on by Leicester's enemies, and he is called ‘Leicester's mad Recorder’ in ‘Leicester's Commonwealth,’ but he was at the same time assiduous in cultivating Lord Burghley's favour. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1888)

“ At the age of thirteen or fourteen he was sent up to London by the common carrier (Whitakes, History of Craven, edit. 1812, p. 437) and bound apprentice to Robert Hulson, citizen and merchant taylor, who, as we gather from Craven's will, lived in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street. Having been admitted to the freedom of the Merchant Taylors' Company on 4 Nov. 1569, Craven appears to have entered into business with Hulson, and subsequently to have quarrelled with him. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1888)

“ The second son, John Craven, was founder of the Craven scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge. He was held in high esteem by Charles I, who created him Baron Craven of Ryton, Shropshire, 21 March 1642–3. He died in 1649, and left no issue by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William, lord Spencer. By his will, dated 18 May 1647, he left large charitable bequests to Burnsall, Skipton, Ripon, Ripley, Knaresborough, and Boroughbridge, and money for redeeming captives in Algiers. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ He was admitted to the livery of the Merchant Taylors' Company of London in 1490, of which he was warden in 1494 and 1498, and master in 1499, obtaining a new charter for the company on 6 Jan. 1502. In 1505 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the shrievalty of London, but was appointed to the office on the king's nomination in 1506, and was elected alderman of Broad Street ward in the same year. Elected sheriff of London in 1510 he refused to serve, and was in consequence disfranchised and fined one thousand marks by the lord mayor. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ In 1568 he became ‘double reader in Lent’ to his inn. By the Earl of Leicester's influence he was elected (26 April 1571) recorder of London, and the same year was made a commissioner to inquire into the customs, besides being returned to parliament for the city of London (8 May 1572) . As recorder he was famous for rigorously and successfully enforcing the laws against vagrants, mass-priests, and papists. In 1576 he was committed to the Fleet prison for a short time for breaking into the Portuguese ambassador's chapel under colour of the law against popish recusants. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1888)

“ CRAVEN, Sir WILLIAM (1548?–1618) , lord mayor of London, second son of William Craven and Beatrix, daughter of John Hunter, and grandson of John Craven, was born at Appletreewick, a village in the parish of Burnsall, near Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about 1548. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ He married Mariana, daughter of John Barley of Kingsey, Buckinghamshire, by whom he left a family. His elder son, Sir William, succeeded to Missenden, and the younger son, Sir Thomas, of the Middle Temple, was attorney to Henry, prince of Wales. One daughter (Cordelia) married Sir David Foulis [q. v.] ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1888)

“ His most important legacy was that of the manor of Cancerne, near Chichester, Sussex, to provide 100l. for four poor scholars, two at Cambridge and two at Oxford, with preference to his own poor kinsmen. ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1888)

“ Craven, instead of only giving 20l., would take upon himself the support of one woman at 16d. a week.’ Two years later he made a donation of 50l. towards the building of the library of St. John's College, Oxford, with which college the company was, by its school, closely connected ”

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Walter Baker Clode, Dictionary of National Biography… (1889)

“ He had by his first wife issue Sir William, his heir (father of Sir William Fitzwilliam, 1526–1599 [q. v.] ) , Richard, Elizabeth, and Ann; by his second wife, Christopher, Francis, and Thomas. He died 9 Aug. ”

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