Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet (18 February 1763 – 15 September 1834) was a merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1808–09.[1] [2]
Flower traded in salt meat, butter and cheese, and was described as having acquired "an ample fortune" by the time of his ascendency to the mayoralty.[3][4] He was created a baronet, of the Flower baronets, of Lobb in the County of Oxford and of Woodford in the County of Essex, on 1 December 1809.[5][6]
Flower was appointed an alderman in the City of London's Cornhill ward in 1801.[1] He had previously been elected one of the Sheriffs of the City of London in 1799.[7]
Flower was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters.[8] Flower's daughter, Anne Mary, became a noted horticulturist in Canada.[9]
His son Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet inherited the baronetcy, which became extinct upon his death without heirs in 1850.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1845. pp. 546–.
- ^ Burke, John (1833). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 481. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
- ^ Janet MacDonald (2010). The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815: Management Competence and Incompetence. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-1-84383-553-0.
- ^ The National register. 1808. pp. 731–.
- ^ "No. 16311". The London Gazette. 4 November 1809. p. 1721.
- ^ Norfolk Lists from the Reformation to the Present Time. Matchett, Stevenson, and Matchett. 1837. pp. 11–.
- ^ Henry Thomas (1830). The Ancient Remains, Antiquities, and Recent Improvements, of the City of London. Sears. pp. 91–.
- ^ The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, Arts, Sciences, and Literature, for the Year ... G. Robinson. 1808. pp. 1–.
- ^ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1004–. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
- ^ Burke, J. Bernard (29 March 2017). The Heraldic Register. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-9957246-5-5. Retrieved 26 July 2024.