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The office of mayor dates back to at least 1217 and was upgraded by Richard II to that of Lord Mayor in 1389. [2] The Mansion House, York, is the Lord Mayor's home during his or her term of office. [1] The use of the prefix "right honourable" appears to have been used since the creation of the lord mayoralty.
Among the earliest family was Thomas Harrison (1504–1595) who was the Mayor of York, England. [4] The two Virginia Harrison lines share similar coats of arms, both issued in English heraldry. They feature helmets and shields emblazoned by gold eagles on a dark field with supporters.
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Harrison was born at Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Robert Harrison, merchant. He matriculated as a pensioner at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 12 April 1634, aged sixteen, and graduated BA in 1638. [1] Harrison travelled to New England by 1640, and there trained up to the ministry.
In the mid-16th century, the Company of Merchant Adventurers of York owned a house on Marketshire, a street which was becoming known as Pavement. They let out the house to Christopher Herbert, a merchant who later became Lord Mayor of York. He purchased the property in 1557, and later passed it on to his son, Thomas, who acquired properties ...
Thomas Harrison was baptised 16 July 1616, second of four children and only son of Richard Harrison, four times mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and his wife Mary.In 1646, he married his cousin Catherine Harrison; they had three children, all of whom died as infants.
The chain was funded by a bequest from Colonel Rupert Alexander Alec-Smith, who had served as Sheriff of Hull between 1949 and 1950, Lord Mayor of Hull in 1970 and 1971, and Lord Lieutenant of Humberside in 1980–83.
Arms of Robinson of Newby: Vert, a chevron between three bucks at gaze or The Red House, built for Robinson c.1714 with later additions. Newby Park, later Baldersby Park. Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet (19 November 1655 – 22 December 1736), 1st Baronet of Newby-on-Swale, Yorkshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1689 and 1722.