William Craven (Lord Mayor of London) William Craven (Lord Mayor of London) Sir William Craven (1548 – 18 July 1618) was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London in 1610 (some sources say also in 1618). It has been noted that the story of Dick Whittington has some similarities to Craven's career, though the story was first published before Craven became Lord Mayor. He was the second son of William Craven and Beatrix, daughter of John Hunter, and grandson of John Craven, was born at Appletreewick, a village in the parish of Burnsall, near Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about 1548. The date is
Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor of London) Henry Luddington by Joan Kirkeby (d.1576), daughter and heir of William Kirkeby of London. After Henry Luddington's death in 1531, his widow remarried before 1539 to William Laxton (Lord Mayor of London in 1545). Laxton had no issue of his own, and bequeathed his estate to the use of his widow, and after her death to his niece Joan Wanton, his right heir, and to his three step-children by Joan's first marriage, Nicholas Luddington, Joan (Machell) and Anne (Lodge). Anne Luddington was the widow of the wealthy London Grocer William Lane (d.1552). Lodge's stepchildren by Anne were: Thomas and Anne