Sir John Baddeley, 1st BaronetJP | |
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Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet, (22 December 1842 – 28 June 1926) was a Lord Mayor of London.
Background
He was the eldest son of John Baddeley and his wife Frances Beresford, fifth daughter of James Beresford. Baddeley was educated at Cambridge House School in Hackney.
Career
Baddeley was alderman of Farringdon Within and a member of the Court of Common Council from 1886. He was nominated Sheriff of the City of London in 1908 and was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year.
In 1921, Baddeley was appointed the 593rd Lord Mayor of London. After the end of his tenure in the following year, he was created a baronet, of Lakefield, in the Parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington, in the County of London on 24 November. Baddeley was a Commander of the Swedish Royal Order of Vasa and of the Russian Order of St Anna.
He served as justice of the peace for the County of London.
Family
John James was the son of John Baddeley, a printer from the baddeley brothers- a family printing company based in London.
He was the oldest of twelve siblings; George Charles, Fredrick, William Henry, Frances Eliza, Charles Edward, Emma, Horace, Walter, Adele, Jesse, Lizzie and Alfred.
On 13 August 1868, he married firstly Mary Elizabeth Locks, daughter of William Locks, and had by her nine children, four daughters and five sons. After her death in 1906, Baddeley remarried Florence Bertha Mathews, daughter of Joseph Douglas Mathews on 25 July, 1912.
He died in 1926 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son, John.
Works
- A History of St Giles's Church (1880)
- The Aldermen of the City of London from 1276 (1900)
- A History of the Guildhall (1912)
- Cripplegate: One of the Twenty-Six Wards of the City of London (1921)
References
- "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Walford, Edward (1919). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
- ^ Who is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black. 1914. p. 75.
- "No. 28275". The London Gazette. 30 July 1909. p. 5805.
- ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companioage. J. Whitaker & Sons. 1923. p. 132.
- "No. 32779". The London Gazette. 22 December 1922. p. 9029.
- ^ "ThePeerage – Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Bt". Retrieved 24 January 2007.
- Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. Vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 68.
Honorary titles | ||
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Preceded bySir James Roll, 1st Baronet | Lord Mayor of London 1921 – 1922 |
Succeeded bySir Edward Moore, 1st Baronet |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baronet (of Lakefield) 1922 – 1926 |
Succeeded byJohn William Baddeley |
- 1842 births
- 1926 deaths
- Burials at Highgate Cemetery
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- English justices of the peace
- Knights Bachelor
- Commanders of the Order of Vasa
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna
- Sheriffs of the City of London
- 20th-century lord mayors of London
- 20th-century English politicians
- 19th-century English politicians