Stephen Slaney
Sir Stephen Slaney was an English politician and Lord Mayor of London. He served as Alderman of Portsoken, Sheriff of the City of London for 1584, and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1595.[1] He was a member of the Skinners Company. During his mayoral term, there was a significant grain shortage, which inspired a "scurrilous" ballad by the author Thomas Deloney, who Slaney attempted (unsuccessfully) to have arrested.[2][3]
Stephen Slaney was the son of John Slaney of Mitton (in Staffordshire)[4] and the grandson of Ralph Slaney of Yardley in Worcestershire.[5] He was married to Margaret, daughter of Jasper Pheasant, and had five sons and six daughters.[2] One of his daughters, Anne, married Thomas Colepeper, MP.[6] His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Lennard, MP[7] and was the mother of the first of the Lennard baronets. Another daughter, Mary, married Richard Bradgate and then married a later Lord Mayor of London, Humphrey Weld.[8] One son, also named Stephen, married Katherine Aston, daughter of Walter Aston, MP, and predeceased his father.[9] Stephen died in 1608 and was buried at St. Stephens, Walbrook.[2] His widow, Margaret, died in 1619.[10]
References
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- ^ Burke, Bernard "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales", vol. 3, pg. 933
- ^ "History of Parliament: Thomas Colepeper"
- ^ "History of Parliament: Samuel Lennard"
- ^ "Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica" pg. 328
- ^ Chetwynd-Stapylton, Henry Edward "The Chetwynds of Ingestre" pg. 178
- ^ Jones, N., and Woolf, D. "Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England" pg. 197
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