Edward Ironside (Lord Mayor of London) Edward Ironside (Lord Mayor of London) Edward Ironside (25 Feb 1705 – 1753) was a British banker and Lord Mayor of London in 1753. Ironside was born in the parish of St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, the son of Edward Ironside and his wife Mary Gatton. He was apprenticed to his father on 8 November 1720 for seven years and was granted freedom of the City on 2 October 1728 and admitted to the Goldsmiths Company on 5 March 1729. He became a Banker in business at the Black Lion, 65 Lombard Street. In 1730, he married Anne Newman.
Frederick Bull (Lord Mayor of London) Frederick Bull (Lord Mayor of London) Frederick Bull (c. 1714–1784) was Lord Mayor of London and a radical politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1773 to 1784. Bull was the second son of John Bull of London, and his wife Hannah. He married Judith Dickinson of Ware on 26 August 1737. From about 1744 he was a tea merchant in Leadenhall Street. He succeeded to property at Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire from his mother in 1746. He went into partnership with Samuel Moody in around 1757. Bull was Sheriff of London in 1771-2 and became an alderman in