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About William Garrard
Sir William Garrard (1507–1571), also Garrett, Gerrarde, etc., was a Tudor magnate of London, a merchant citizen in the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, who became alderman, Sheriff (1552–1553) and Lord Mayor of London (1555–1556) and was returned as an MP for the City of London. He was a senior founding officer of the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands in 1554/55, having been involved in its enterprises since the beginnings in King Edward VI's time, and for the last decade of his life was one of its permanent governors. He worked hard and invested largely to expand English overseas trade not only to Russia and the Levant but also to the Barbary Coast and to West Africa and Guinea.
Everything about William Garrard →- Occupation
- merchant, financier, politician, slave trader
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1558 Parliament, Lord Mayor of London, Sheriff of the City of London
- Born
- 1518
- Died
- September 27, 1571