John Harte (mayor)

Sir John Harte (15??- January 1604) was a 16th-century English merchant who was one of the principal founders of the English East India Company as well as a Lord Mayor of London.[1] He was a native of Kilburn who became a grocer in the city of London.[2] He was elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1579, serving with future mayor Martin Calthorp, and later elected Lord Mayor of London in 1589.[3] He purchased a large mansion, known as Oxford House, that had once belonged to the Earls of Oxford and later to Lord Mayor Ambrose Nicholas.[4] One of his daughters married Sir George Bolles, a later Lord Mayor of London.[5] Harte died in 1604.

References

  1. ↑ "Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works" pg. 1254
  2. ↑ Taylor, Richard Vickerman "Anecdotae Eboracenses: Yorkshire Anecdotes" pp. 197-8
  3. ↑ Fisher, Eden and co. "A Short History of the Lord Mayors' Pageants" pp. 49 - 50
  4. ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-60_ff_165-7.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-103_ff_1-7.pdf
Civic offices
Preceded by
Richard Martin		 Lord Mayor of London
1589–1590 		Succeeded by
John Allot


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