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ROBERT WAITHMAN (1764–1833)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT
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WAITHMAN (1764–1833)  ,
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Lord
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Mayor of
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London, was
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born at
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Wrexham in 1764 . After being employed for some
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time in a London
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linen
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draper's, he opened, about 1786, a draper's
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shop of his own, and made a considerable
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fortune . In 1818 he was returned to
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parliament, as a liberal, for the
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city of London . He lost his seat at the
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election of 182o, but regained it in 1826, and retained it till his
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death, taking
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part vigorously in the
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parliamentary debates, and strenuously supporting reform . In 1823 he was Lord Mayor of London .
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Waithman died in London on the 6th of
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February 1833 . An
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obelisk erected by his
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friends in Ludgate
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Circus, London, adjoining the site of his first shop, commemorates his memory .

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