Sir Ralph Warren (c. 1486 – 11 July 1553) was twice
Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional pow ...
, for the first time in 1536 and the second in 1543.
Biography
Ralph Warren was the son of Sir Thomas Warren of
Feering
Feering is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England. The parish is between Colchester and Witham. The village, which lies at the south-west edge of the parish, is conjoined to the neighbouring village of Kelvedon. ...
, Essex, and grandson of William Warren.
Warren was a London
mercer
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Business
* Mercer (car), a defunct American automobile manufacturer (1909–1925)
* Mercer (consulting firm), a large human resources consulting firm headquartered in New York City
* Mercer (occupation), a merchant or trader, ...
. He served as alderman, as
Sheriff in 1528, and as
Lord Mayor in 1536 and 1543. He was
knighted in the first year of his mayoralty by
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagr ...
.
He lived at
Fulham House
Fulham House is a military installation at 87 Fulham High Street, Fulham, London. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
The original house was named ''Passors'' after a family living on the site during the reign of King Edward III. A passor ...
, a
Grade II listed
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house at 87
Fulham High Street
Fulham High Street is a street in Fulham, London.
It runs north–south, from the junction with the western end of Fulham Road in the north, where it continues to Hammersmith as Fulham Palace Road, past the junction with the western end of New ...
,
Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandswo ...
.
In 1545 he gave a sword to the
City of London
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, which could be the Pearl Sword that is now one of the five ceremonial
City of London swords
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.
Warren died on 11 July 1553, and was buried in the chancel of the church of St. Osythe's, (also known as
St Benet Sherehog
St Benet Sherehog, additionally dedicated to St Osyth, was a medieval parish church built before the year 1111, on a site now occupied by No 1 Poultry in Cordwainer Ward, in what was then the wool-dealing district of the City of London. A ''sh ...
).
[Nichols, Notes "Ibid. ''Funeral of alderman sir Ralph Warren''".]
Marriages and issue
Warren married firstly Christiana Warcup, widow of Roger North (d.1509), and daughter of Richard Warcup or Warcop of
Sinnington
Sinnington is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale
district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park.
According to the 2001 UK census, the parish has a ...
, Yorkshire. By her marriage to Roger North, Christiana (née Warcup) had a son and daughter,
Sir Edward North
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, and Joan North, who married, and was the
Marian exile
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,
Joan Wilkinson
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...
.
Warren married secondly, Joan Trelake, the daughter of John Trelake ''alias'' Davy, of
Cornwall
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, by whom he had two children, Richard Warren (d.1598) and Joan Warren (d.1584), who married her father's ward, Sir
Henry Williams Henry Williams may refer to:
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*Henry Williams (activist) (born 2000), chief of staff of the Mike Gravel 2020 presidential campaign
* Henry Williams (MP for Northamptonshire) (died 1558), Member of Parliament (MP) for Northamptonshire
...
of
Hinchingbrooke House
Hinchingbrooke House is an English stately home in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, now part of Hinchingbrooke School.
The house was built around an 11th-century Benedictine nunnery. After the Reformation it passed into the hands of the Cromwell fa ...
, Huntingdonshire, grandfather of the Protector
Oliver Cromwell
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.
Joan married secondly, on 25 November 1558,
Sir Thomas White, alderman of London, founder of
St John's College, Oxford
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.
[The said Sir Henry Williams, alias Cromwell, had issue by the lady Joan, his wife, Oliver Cromwell, esq. his son and heir, with other sons. Visit. of Hunt, in 1613; and of Kent in 1609. Stow's and Strype's survey of London; Grafton's chronicle; pedigree in the possession of the miss Cromwells;" ''lives of Oliver lord prot. &c''.]
See also
*
List of Sheriffs of the City of London
*
List of Lord Mayors of London
List of all mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the City of London Corporation, and first citizens of the City of London, from medieval times). Until 1354, the title held was Mayor of London. The dates are those of election to of ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Ralph
1480s births
1553 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Sheriffs of the City of London
16th-century lord mayors of London
People from Fulham
15th-century English people
16th-century English businesspeople
Merchants of the Staple
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