Charles Peers
{{Short description|British businessman; (1661–1737)}}
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Sir Charles Peers (1661 – 29 January 1737) was a British businessman who became the Chairman of the East India Company in 1714The_India_list_and_India_Office_list [https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=The_India_list_and_India_Office_list The India list and India Office list for ... - Great Britain. India Office - Google Books] and Lord Mayor of London in 1715.[http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5C61458D-4D0A-4C07-AE3E-90C1C20B1E71/0/LH_HC_lordmayors1189.pdf Lord Mayors of London] {{Webarchive|url=https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20100209130658/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5C61458D-4D0A-4C07-AE3E-90C1C20B1E71/0/LH_HC_lordmayors1189.pdf |date=2010-02-09 }} City of London website. He had previously served as one of the Sheriffs of the City of London in 1708–1709.{{harvnb|Noorthouck|1773|pp=889–893}}{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=C. |title=Surveyors of the Fabric of Westminster Abbey 1906-1973. Reports and Letters. |date=2019 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78327-420-8 |pages=415}}
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.[http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I79200&tree=London Sir Charles Peers (1661 - 1737)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101105546/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I79200&tree=London |date=2014-01-01 }} Family tree. 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.{{cite web |title=PEERS, Sir Charles (1661-1737): Administrative/Biographical history |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=18503&inst_id=118&nv1=browse&nv2=sub |date= |publisher=London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, ref code: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-148 }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp119-140|title=Chronological list of aldermen: 1701-1800|publisher=British History Online|access-date= 4 January 2018}}
He was knighted on 16 July 1707.[http://www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk/publications/monographs/mdxchurches/mdxchurches-stolavehartst.htm City of London, St Olave's Church, Hart Street: Monographs. #39] He served as a Sheriff of the City of London (1708–1709) and as Lord Mayor of London (1715–16).
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References
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- {{cite book|last=Noorthouck |first=John |year=1773 |chapter=Addenda: The Mayors and Sheriffs of London (to 1773)|title=A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark |pages=889–893|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46797}}
External links
- [https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-charles-peers-16611737-lord-mayor-of-london-1715-and-his-daughter-mary-b-1710-51403 Portrait of Sir Charles Peers, Lord Mayor of London] at BBC
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Category:British businesspeople
Category:Directors of the British East India Company
Category:Sheriffs of the City of London
Category:18th-century lord mayors of London
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