Richard Levett
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Sir Richard Levett was an English merchant and politician who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1699. Born in Ashwell, Rutland, he moved to London and established a pioneering mercantile career, bec
1699 portrait by Godfried Schalcken
Arms of Lord Mayor Levett, Stype's Survey of London, 1720
St. Anne's Church, Kew, burial place of Sir Richard Levett and family
The Rt Hon'ble Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, 1700
William Levett was the Oxford-educated personal chaplain to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whom he accompanied into exile in France, then became the rector of two parishes, and subsequently Princ
Richard Levett
…Alderman Levett, son of the Lord Mayor, died and was buried at Temple Church in 1740). The third brother of Richard and Francis Levett was Very Rev. Dr. William Levett, Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Dean of Bristol. The brothers' uncle, brother of their father Rev. Richard Levett of Rutland, was courtier…
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon