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
Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor) Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor) Sir Henry Tulse was an alderman of the City of London and was Lord Mayor of London in 1684. Tulse was elected alderman for Bread Street Ward in the City of London in 1673. He was knighted at the Guildhall on 18 October 1673. In 1674 he was Sheriff of London. He became Lord Mayor in 1684. Tulse owned estates in South London which were named Tulse Hill after him. His daughter Elizabeth married Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, and the Onslow family subsequently owned the estates. Tulse was the cousin of Henry Tulse, MP for