Charles Peers

This article is about the merchant and Lord Mayor of London. For the architect and preservationist, see Charles Reed Peers. For the South African artist, see Charles Ernest Peers.

Sir Charles Peers (1661 – 29 January 1737) was a British businessman who became the Chairman of the East India Company in 1714^[1] and Lord Mayor of London in 1715.^[2] He had previously served as one of the Sheriffs of the City of London in 1708–1709.^[3][4]

Biography

Peers was born to Edmund Peers (d. 1681) and Mary Walden, in 1661, of the parish of the St. Katherine Creechurch, Aldgate ward, London.^[5] He started his career as a salter (trader of salt) and also as the London partner of William Morley and Company of Málaga, merchants and importers. He later became Common Councilman for Aldgate Ward 1701–8, and Alderman of Tower Ward 1708–37.^[6]

He was a Director of the Bank of England in 1705-07 and 1708–12, a Director of the New East India Company in 1701-05 and 1706–09 and a Director of the United East India Company in 1712-15. He was Chairman of the latter for 1714-15.^[7]

He was knighted on 16 July 1707.^[8] He served as a Sheriff of the City of London (1708–1709) and as Lord Mayor of London (1715–16).

See also

• List of Lord Mayors of London

References

1. The_India_list_and_India_Office_list The India list and India Office list for ... - Great Britain. India Office - Google Books
2. Lord Mayors of London Archived 2010-02-09 at the UK Web Archive City of London website.
3. Noorthouck 1773, pp. 889–893
4. Reynolds, C. (2019). Surveyors of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey 1906-1973. Reports and Letters. Boydell & Brewer. p. 415. ISBN 978-1-78327-420-8.
5. Sir Charles Peers (1661 - 1737) Archived 2014-01-01 at the Wayback Machine Family tree.
6. "PEERS, Sir Charles (1661-1737): Administrative/Biographical history". London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, ref code: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-148.
7. "Chronological list of aldermen: 1701-1800". British History Online. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
8. City of London, St Olave's Church, Hart Street: Monographs. #39

• Noorthouck, John (1773). "Addenda: The Mayors and Sheriffs of London (to 1773)". A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark. pp. 889–893.

External links

• Portrait of Sir Charles Peers, Lord Mayor of London at BBC

Civic offices
Preceded by Sir William Humfreys, 1st Baronet	Lord Mayor of London 1715–1716	Succeeded by Sir James Bateman