Paul Withypoll

Paul Withypoll (by 1485 – 3 June 1547, London) was an English merchant, born in Bristol, who settled in London and became a Member of Parliament for the City of London.^[1][2] He had extensive contacts with a group of English merchants and explorers who were engaged in expanding trade networks in the Atlantic world in the early sixteenth century, including the Thorne family of Bristol, Roger Barlow and Sebastian Cabot.^[3]

Paul Withypoll
Born	c.1480-85 Bristol
Died	3 June 1547 St. Laurence Poultney in Dowgate, London
Occupation	Merchant Taylor of London

Withypoll's portrait is included in the 'Withypoll Triptych' (1514) he commissioned, painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonio Solario, probably while Withypoll was trading in Italy. This is now on display in the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.^[4]

In 1545, with his son, Edmund Withypoll he bought land in Ipswich.^[5]

References

1. "WITHYPOLL, Paul (by 1485-1547), of London and Walthamstow, Essex. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
2. Moore Smith, G. C. (1936). "Ch. 1. Paul Withypoll, 1480-1547". The Family of Withypoll: with special reference to their Manor of Christchurch, Ipswich and some notes on the allied families of Thorne, Harper, Lucar, and Devereux. Vol. 34. Walthamstow Antiquarian Society. pp. 13–23.
3. Dalton, Heather (2017). "Portraits, Pearls and Things "wch are very straunge to owres": The lost collections of the Thorne/Withypoll Trading Syndicate, 1520–1550". In Anderson, Christina (ed.). Early Modern Merchants as Collectors. Abingdon: Routledge. pp. 31–46.
4. Steer, Susan. "Virgin and Child with St Joseph and Donor (Paul Withypool)". Vads. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
5. "St Margaret's, the Withypoll family and Christchurch Mansion" (PDF). stmargaretsipswich.org.uk/. St Margaret's Church, Ipswich. Retrieved 30 August 2019.