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
John Gore (Lord Mayor) he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted on 4 June 1626. In 1634 he was elected president of Christ's Hospital. Gore married as his second wife, a daughter of Sir Thomas Cambell (Lord Mayor in 1609–10). His eldest daughter married John Cotton, alderman in 1649. He was the brother of Richard Gore MP for the City of London, and of William Gore, alderman and Sheriff in 1615/16. John Gore (Lord Mayor) Sir John Gore (died December 1636) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1624. Gore was a son of Gerard Gore, alderman