Robert Waithman
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Robert Waithman was a master draper who in later life was a British politician; an economic progressive Whig from an industrial background and a political reformist. He became an alderman of the Corpo
Robert Waithman
Obelisk to Waithman in Salisbury Square, St Bride's, London, EC4 previously on Ludgate Circus.
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet was a British Whig politician, Lord Mayor of London from 1815 to 1817, and from 1817 until his death in 1843 a reformist Member of Parliament.
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, wearing the chain of the Lord Mayor of London. Portrait by Arthur William Devis
Mother Wood, the Popular Procuress-!, 1820 satirical print of Matthew Wood, dressed as a well-known brothel keeper
Moments of Pleasure, satirical engraving by Theodore Lane showing Lady Anne Hamilton, Matthew Wood and Caroline of Brunswick