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NameSir William Garrard 
[150, Garrard, pp. 213-4], [56, London 1568; pub Harleian 1869, p. 5], [54, His own article], [56, Bucks, pub Harleian 1909, Garrard, p. 62], [149, No 14087 on Sir John Garrard]
[150, Garrard, pp. 213-4], [56, London 1568; pub Harleian 1869, p. 5], [54, His own article], [56, Bucks, pub Harleian 1909, Garrard, p. 62], [149, No 14087 on Sir John Garrard]Birthca 1510, Parish of St Magnus nr London Bridge
Death27 Sep 1571, Parish of St Christopher
BurialSt Magnus' Church, Nr London Bridge
GeneralLord mayor of London: 1555. Citizen and haberdasher.
FatherJohn Garrard
Spouses
Notes for Sir William Garrard
Their four sons were William (d. 17 Nov 1607), George, John and Peter.
William and George died without sons, leaving the "representation" to the third son, John.
George married Margaret, daughter of George D'Acres of Cheshunt, Herts, and she is in Complete Peerage as the widow of George Garrard and the wife of Sir Henry Savile and had a daughter Anne to Sir Henry who m. Dudley Carleton, 1st viscount Dorchester. Burke, of course, has this Anne Savile as the daughter of George Garrard...
William Garrard himself lived at Dorney, Bucks.
William and George died without sons, leaving the "representation" to the third son, John.
George married Margaret, daughter of George D'Acres of Cheshunt, Herts, and she is in Complete Peerage as the widow of George Garrard and the wife of Sir Henry Savile and had a daughter Anne to Sir Henry who m. Dudley Carleton, 1st viscount Dorchester. Burke, of course, has this Anne Savile as the daughter of George Garrard...
William Garrard himself lived at Dorney, Bucks.
Mon Inscripts notes for Sir William Garrard
Burke quotes this monument in St Magnus' Church, near London Bridge:
"Sir William Garrard, Haberdasher, Mayor 1555, a grave, sober, wise and discreet Citizen, equal with the best, and inferior to none of our time, deceased 1571, in the parish of St Christopher, but was buried in this Church of St Magnus, as in the Parish where he was born."
"Sir William Garrard, Haberdasher, Mayor 1555, a grave, sober, wise and discreet Citizen, equal with the best, and inferior to none of our time, deceased 1571, in the parish of St Christopher, but was buried in this Church of St Magnus, as in the Parish where he was born."
DNB Main notes for Sir William Garrard
Garrard, Sir William c.1510-1571
Name: Garrard, Sir William
Dates: c.1510-1571
Active Date: 1550
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Business and Industry
Occupation: London merchant
Place of
Birth: In the parish of St Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge
Burial: In the church of St Magnus the Martyr
Spouse: Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill
Sources: S. T. Bindoff, The House of Commons 1509-1558, 1982;...
Contributor: Helen Miller
Article
Garrard, Sir William c.1510-1571, London merchant, was born c.1510 in the parish of St Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge, the son of John Garrard, a London grocer. He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp. He bought the manor of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, in 1542, but continued to live mainly in London and remained an active merchant all his life. When the Antwerp market began to contract, he diversified into more risky ventures. In 1552 he exported linen and woollen cloth, coral, amber, and jet to the Barbary coast in return for sugar, dates, almonds, and molasses. He was involved in a number of voyages to Guinea in the 1550s and 1560s, shared in two of the slaving expeditions of Sir John Hawkins [q.v.], and was a leading promoter of the expedition of Richard Chancellor [q.v.] to Russia in 1553. Garrard was named a consul of the Muscovy Company when it was founded in 1555, and from 1561 until his death was almost continuously either sole or joint governor of the company. He was also a governor of the Mineral and Battery Works founded in 1568.
An alderman by 1547, Garrard was elected sheriff of the city of London in 1552, mayor in 1555 - being knighted during his term of office - and one of London’s MPs in the last Parliament of Mary I’s reign. But his major contribution to the corporate life of the city was his work for the relief of the poor. In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city’s new or refounded hospitals. He was a governor of Christ’s Hospital in 1553-4, of Bridewell in 1558-9, and of St Bartholomew’s from 1559 until his death, surveyor of all the city’s hospitals in 1566-7 and their comptroller general from 1568. He maintained his interest until the end, bequeathing to Christ’s Hospital £20 ‘which they owe me that I lent them’, with an additional £6 13s. 4d., besides £20 each to St Bartholomew’s and St Thomas’s. He also left money for prisoners in the city’s prisons and the Gate House at Westminster and for poor householders in his ward and in two London parishes - St Magnus and St Christopher le Stocks, where he was then living - and in the parishes of Dorney and Burnham in Buckinghamshire and Sittingbourne in Kent, where he owned property.
Garrard died 27 September 1571 and was buried, as he had requested, in the church of St Magnus the Martyr. He was survived by his wife Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill, a Coventry draper, and their four sons and one daughter. The eldest son inherited Dorney and became a country gentleman, but John, the third son, followed his father as a city merchant and, in 1601, lord mayor. Sir Samuel Garrard [q.v.], lord mayor in 1709, was a descendant of this son, providing a rare example of continuity in the mercantile élite of London.
Sources
S. T. Bindoff, The House of Commons 1509-1558, 1982; T. S. Willan, The Muscovy Merchants of 1555, 1953; R. Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, 1903; will proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC 3 Daper).
Contributor: Helen Miller
published 1993
Name: Garrard, Sir William
Dates: c.1510-1571
Active Date: 1550
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Business and Industry
Occupation: London merchant
Place of
Birth: In the parish of St Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge
Burial: In the church of St Magnus the Martyr
Spouse: Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill
Sources: S. T. Bindoff, The House of Commons 1509-1558, 1982;...
Contributor: Helen Miller
Article
Garrard, Sir William c.1510-1571, London merchant, was born c.1510 in the parish of St Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge, the son of John Garrard, a London grocer. He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp. He bought the manor of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, in 1542, but continued to live mainly in London and remained an active merchant all his life. When the Antwerp market began to contract, he diversified into more risky ventures. In 1552 he exported linen and woollen cloth, coral, amber, and jet to the Barbary coast in return for sugar, dates, almonds, and molasses. He was involved in a number of voyages to Guinea in the 1550s and 1560s, shared in two of the slaving expeditions of Sir John Hawkins [q.v.], and was a leading promoter of the expedition of Richard Chancellor [q.v.] to Russia in 1553. Garrard was named a consul of the Muscovy Company when it was founded in 1555, and from 1561 until his death was almost continuously either sole or joint governor of the company. He was also a governor of the Mineral and Battery Works founded in 1568.
An alderman by 1547, Garrard was elected sheriff of the city of London in 1552, mayor in 1555 - being knighted during his term of office - and one of London’s MPs in the last Parliament of Mary I’s reign. But his major contribution to the corporate life of the city was his work for the relief of the poor. In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city’s new or refounded hospitals. He was a governor of Christ’s Hospital in 1553-4, of Bridewell in 1558-9, and of St Bartholomew’s from 1559 until his death, surveyor of all the city’s hospitals in 1566-7 and their comptroller general from 1568. He maintained his interest until the end, bequeathing to Christ’s Hospital £20 ‘which they owe me that I lent them’, with an additional £6 13s. 4d., besides £20 each to St Bartholomew’s and St Thomas’s. He also left money for prisoners in the city’s prisons and the Gate House at Westminster and for poor householders in his ward and in two London parishes - St Magnus and St Christopher le Stocks, where he was then living - and in the parishes of Dorney and Burnham in Buckinghamshire and Sittingbourne in Kent, where he owned property.
Garrard died 27 September 1571 and was buried, as he had requested, in the church of St Magnus the Martyr. He was survived by his wife Isabel, daughter of Julian Nethermill, a Coventry draper, and their four sons and one daughter. The eldest son inherited Dorney and became a country gentleman, but John, the third son, followed his father as a city merchant and, in 1601, lord mayor. Sir Samuel Garrard [q.v.], lord mayor in 1709, was a descendant of this son, providing a rare example of continuity in the mercantile élite of London.
Sources
S. T. Bindoff, The House of Commons 1509-1558, 1982; T. S. Willan, The Muscovy Merchants of 1555, 1953; R. Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, 1903; will proved in Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC 3 Daper).
Contributor: Helen Miller
published 1993