Samuel Birch (Lord Mayor of London) advocacy of the Protestant ascendency in Ireland. In 1811, he was appointed one of the sheriffs of London, and on 9 November 1814 Birch entered on his duties as lord mayor. Tory though he was, he opposed the Corn Bill of 1815, and presided at a meeting of the livery in common hall on 23 February 1815, when he made a vigorous attack upon the intended prohibition of the free importation of foreign corn. The course he took on this occasion is commemorated by a medal struck in his honour on the obverse side of which is the bust of
Francis Jones (Lord Mayor) he was elected Lord Mayor of London and was Master of the Haberdashers Company again for 1620 to 1621. Sir Francis was the son of John Jones of Cleverley in Shropshire. He married twice and had three sons and a daughter by his first wife. They lived in London and at his country estate at Welford Park in Berkshire, which he bought in 1618 from the Parry family. Francis Jones (Lord Mayor) Sir Francis Jones (1559-1622) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1620. Jones was a city of London merchant and a member of the