Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet JP (22 December 1842 – 28 June 1926)[1] was a British magistrate and baronet.
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He was the eldest son of John Baddeley and his wife Frances Beresford, fifth daughter of James Beresford.[2] Baddeley was educated at Cambridge House School in Hackney.[2]
Baddeley was alderman of Farringdon Within and a member of the Court of Common Council from 1886.[3] He was nominated Sheriff of the City of London in 1908 and was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year.[4] In 1921, Baddeley was appointed the 593rd Lord Mayor of London.[4] After the end of his tenure in the following year, he was created a Baronet, of Lakefield, in the Parish of St Mary Stoke Newington, in the County of London on 24 November.[5] Baddeley was a Commander of the Swedish Royal Order of Vasa and of the Russian Order of St Anna.[3] He served as Justice of the Peace for the County of London.[4]
On 13 August 1868, he married firstly Mary Elizabeth Locks, daughter of William Locks, and had by her nine children, four daughters and five sons.[6] After her death in 1906, Baddeley remarried Florence Bertha Mathews, daughter of Joseph Douglas Mathews on 25 July 1912.[6] He died in 1926 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son John.[7]
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Preceded by James Roll |
Lord Mayor of London 1921 – 1922 |
Succeeded by Edward C. Moore |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baronet (of Lakefield) 1922 – 1926 |
Succeeded by John William Baddeley |