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Thomas Horsley

Thomas Horsley

Merchant adventurer and former Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne

Thomas Horsley (1462–ca.1545) was a Northumberland corn merchant and merchant adventurer,[lower-alpha 1] who by the start of 16th century was a prominent citizen of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.[2] As well as becoming a local magistrate, he was Sheriff of Newcastle in 1512 and its Lord Mayor in 1514, 1519, 1524–5 (for consecutive years) and 1533.[3][4] In various official capacities, Horsley played an active role in defending the town's mercantile interests, and in 1522, during the Anglo-Scottish Wars, also served as a captain in forces of the English crown under the command of Lord Conyers.[2] He is remembered today primarily as the founder of Newcastle's Royal Grammar School.[5][6]

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Notes

  1. This was the name given to an English merchant who traded with the Low Countries (i.e. Brabant, Flanders, Holland and Zeeland).[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Sutton, Anne F. (2009). "The Merchant Adventurers of England: The Place of the Adventurers of York and the North in the Late Middle Ages". Northern History. 46 (2): 219–229. doi:10.1179/174587009X452314. ISSN 0078-172X. S2CID 159533793.
  2. [2]
    Brodie, J. B.; Laws, A. R. (1925). The Story of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumberland Press Ltd.
  3. [3]
    Bourne, Henry (1736). The Ancient and Present State of Newcastle upon Tyne. London: William White. pp. 221–3. OCLC 722366647. OL 21851966M. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Lord Mayors, Mayors and Sheriffs since 1216" (PDF). Newcastle City Council. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. [5]
    Hamilton, Nicholas, ed. (1868). National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 3 (div. VIII). London: Virtue. p. 30. OCLC 887681707. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. [6]
    Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1840). The Penny Cyclopedia. Vol. 16. London: William White. p. 188. OCLC 504841079. Retrieved 24 March 2020.


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