Sir John Champneys (1495–1556) was
City of London Sheriff in 1522 and
Lord Mayor of London
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in 1534, when he was knighted.
Life
A merchant, Champneys began the building of
Hall Place
Hall Place is a stately home in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. The house was extended in 1649 by Sir Robert Austen, a merchant from ...
,
Bexley
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, in about 1537. The son of Robert Champneys of
Chew Magna
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To the south of the village is Chew ...
,
Somerset
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, he was a member of the
Worshipful Company of Skinners
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. A contemporary chronicler,
John Stow
John Stow (''also'' Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of History of England, English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as ''The Summarie of Englyshe C ...
, noted that he was blind in later life: a divine judgment for having added "a high tower of brick" to his house in
Mincing Lane
Mincing Lane is a short one-way street in the City of London linking Fenchurch Street to Great Tower Street. In the late 19th century it was the world's leading centre for tea and spice trading.
Etymology
Its name is a corruption of Mynchen ...
, "the first that I ever heard of in any private man's house, to overlook his neighbours in this city."
He married twice. His first wife was Margaret (died by 1515), daughter of
Thomas Murfyn, and widow of Roger Hall.
His second wife was Merial Barret (died 1534) by whom he had three sons:
* Francis
* Clement
* Justinian
He died on 3 October 1556 and was buried on 8 October at St Mary the Virgin, Bexley.
See also
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List of Sheriffs of the City of London
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List of Lord Mayors of London
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16th-century lord mayors of London
Sheriffs of the City of London
16th-century English knights
1495 births
1556 deaths
Knights Bachelor