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词条 Thomas Canynges
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  1. Background

  2. Career

  3. Death

  4. See also

  5. Sources

  6. References

  7. Further reading

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Thomas Canynges (fl. 1450) was Lord Mayor of London in 1456-57.

Background

He was born probably at Bristol before 1399,[2] a member of a wealthy family of merchants and cloth manufacturers in that city. He was the eldest of seven children of John Canynges, who died as a young man in 1405, by his wife Joan Wotton. One of Thomas's younger brothers was the great Bristol merchant William II Canynges(d.1474). Thomas's grandfather William I Canynges(d.1396) was also a great Bristol merchant and was also 5 times Mayor of Bristol and 3 times MP for Bristol, in 1383, 1384 and 1386. His 2nd son John Canynges, the father of Thomas, was also prominent in Bristol civic life, serving twice as mayor and as MP for Bristol in 1383.

Career

Canyges was a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and became an Alderman for Aldgate ward in 1445. He was made Sheriff of London in 1449 and was elected Lord Mayor of London for 1456–57. He was a Member of Parliament for City of London in 1459 as one of the two aldermanic representatives.[3]

Death

His wife [?mother, wife of John Canynges?] Joan Wotton survived him and married secondly in about 1408 Thomas Young, twice mayor of Bristol, by whom she had two successful sons, John Young, Alderman of London, Grocer and Lord Mayor of London in 1466, and Thomas Young (d.1476) a lawyer of the Middle Temple, Recorder of Bristol from 1441 and MP for Bristol almost continuously, with one break in 1453, between 1435 and 1455. Thomas Young before 1450 entered into the household of Richard, Duke of York (d.1460), the Yorkist contender for heirship to the Throne then occupied by Henry VI (1422-1461).

See also

  • List of Sheriffs of the City of London
  • List of Lord Mayors of London
  • City of London (elections to the Parliament of England)

Sources

  • [https://archive.org/details/memorialsofcanyn00prycuoft Pryce, George. Memorials of the Canynges Family and their Times, Bristol, 1854]
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, Vol. 9, pp. 970–971

References

1. ^Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.166, Canning, his descendant
2. ^1399 is the estimated date of birth of his younger brother William II Canynges
3. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp379-404|title=Chronological list of aldermen: 1302-1400|publisher=British History Online|accessdate= 7 October 2016}}

Further reading

  • Williams, E.E., The Chantries of William Canynges in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with a Survey of Chantries in General and some Events in the Lives of the Canynges Family, 1950
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