John Harte (mayor)

Sir John Harte (active 1575 – January 1604) was a 16th-century English merchant who was one of the principal founders of the English East India Company as well as a Lord Mayor of London.^[1] He was a native of Kilburn who became a grocer in the city of London.^[2] He was elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1579, serving with future mayor Martin Calthorp, and later elected Lord Mayor of London in 1589.^[3] He purchased a large mansion, known as Oxford House, that had once belonged to the Earls of Oxford and later to Lord Mayor Ambrose Nicholas.^[4] One of his daughters married Sir George Bolles, a later Lord Mayor of London.^[5] Harte died in 1604.

References

1. Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John (22 November 2007). Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. OUP Oxford. p. 1254. ISBN 9780191568541. Retrieved 6 May 2019 – via Google Books.
2. Taylor, Richard Vickerman (6 May 1883). "Anecdotae Eboracenses: Yorkshire Anecdotes; Or Remarkable Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Yorkshire Men and Women". Whittaker. p. 197. Retrieved 6 May 2019 – via Google Books.
3. "A Short History of the Lord Mayors' Pageants: Together with a Chronological Table of the Mayors, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London, from A.D. 1189 to 1896". E. Fisher. 6 May 1896. p. 50. Retrieved 6 May 2019 – via Google Books.
4. "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/60, ff. 165-7" (PDF). Oxford-shakespeare.com. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
5. "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/103/59" (PDF). Oxford-shakespeare.com. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

Civic offices
Preceded by Richard Martin	Lord Mayor of London 1589–1590	Succeeded by John Allot