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His grandfather, Sir Richard Yorke, was a merchant in York, and in 1466 was Mayor of the Staple at Calais. Sir Richard's son Thomas, John's uncle, was also a merchant, and John appears to have joined the family business and spent time as a merchant in Calais and Antwerp. [1]: 41
Sir Roger Jacques [18] Merchant, and MP for York, 1640 1640–1641: Sir Robert Belt [18] Merchant 1641–1642: Sir Christopher Croft [18] Mercer 1642–1644: Sir Edmund Cooper [18] Merchant. Start of the English Civil War. York was initially held by the Royalists . [19] [20] 1644–1645: Sir Edmund Cooper displaced and replaced by Thomas Hoyle [18]
Sir John kneels at left, Lady Donne and a daughter at right. Sir John Donne (c.1420s – January 1503) [1] was a Welsh courtier, diplomat and soldier, a notable figure of the Yorkist party. In the 1470s, he commissioned the Donne Triptych, a triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London. It contains portraits of him ...
Sir John Lister Kaye, 1st Baronet, as Lord Mayor of York. Sir John Lister-Kaye, 1st Baronet (1772 – 28 February 1827) was an English amateur cricketer in the late 18th century. His career spanned the 1787 to 1798 seasons and he played mainly for Marylebone Cricket Club and Surrey.
Marriage of John of Gaunt to Blanche of Lancaster at Reading Abbey in 1359: painting by Horace Wright (1914). John was the son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, and was born in Ghent in Flanders, most likely at Saint Bavo's Abbey, in March 1340. [6]
John Piers (Peirse) (1522/3 – 1594) was Archbishop of York between 1589 and 1594. ... His translation to the archbishopric of York was as Sandys's successor in 1589 ...
He was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, England, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow. [2] Tobias was born at Bristol on 13 June 1546. Matthew was educated at Wells, Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford. [3] He proceeded BA in 1564, and MA in 1566. [2]
Brigadier-General Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet (5 November 1741 – 4 January 1830) was an American-born military officer, politician and landowner who fought as a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War. He was the son of Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, a prominent British Indian Department official in the Thirteen Colonies.