Sir Richard Levett (1629–1711) 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, becoming involved with the Bank of England and the East India Company.
Acquainted with many prominent individuals during his time in the City of London, among them Samuel Pepys, Sir John Houblon, Sir William Gore, Sir John Holt, Sir Charles Eyre, and Dr Robert Hooke, Levett acquired several properties in Kew and Cripplegate.[1]
^The House of Commons, 1690–1715, Vol. I, David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002
Sir RichardLevett (1629–1711) was an English merchant and politician who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1699. Born in Ashwell, Rutland, he moved...
Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from [de] Livet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British...
seat of the Levett Haszard family and is a Grade II listed building. The estate passed to the Levett family in 1749 when Reverend RichardLevett, son of the...
the time. In 1697, Fortrey's descendants leased the building to Sir RichardLevett, a powerful merchant and the former Lord Mayor of London, who later...
was presented to the neighbouring living of Stillington by Reverend RichardLevett, Prebendary of Stillington, who was patron of the living. Subsequently...
daughter of Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London and owner of Kew Palace, the Hulse family acquired many heirlooms of the Sussex Levetts, an ancient Norman...
manors to Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London. On Levett Blackborne's death, the combined manor...
of the Cutler family, including Master of The Haberdashers Company RichardLevett, with whom Hooke was separately involved in a building commission, to...
Percival Levett (1560–1625) was an early merchant and innkeeper of York, England, Sheriff of the city, member of the Eastland Company and father of English...
the son of Francis Levett, a tobacco merchant who as a descendant of the trading house built by two brothers, Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London...
Theophilus Levett (1693–1746) was an attorney and early town clerk of Lichfield, Staffordshire, a prominent Staffordshire politician and landowner, and...
well-connected—and inter-connected—group. Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne, grandson of Sir RichardLevett, a powerful merchant and Lord Mayor of London, came...
Rainton 1637–38: Sir Richard Fenn 1652–53: John Fowke, MP 1664–65: Sir John Lawrence 1688–89: Sir John Chapman 1699–00: Sir RichardLevett 1717–18: Sir William...
from Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London who owned the palace as well as the house he leased to Eyre and the estate surrounding them. Levett was a powerful...
grant given to London barrister Levett Blackborne in 1767. The well-connected Blackborne, grandson of Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London, never settled...
Archives, nationalarchives.gov.uk. Rev. Blackborne, grandson of Sir RichardLevett, Lord Mayor of London, who had served Dagenham as its rector for 58...
Peter Delmé (1698–1703, 1709–13 and 1717–1728) (Governor 1715–1717) RichardLevett (1698–1700) John Rudge (1699–1711) (Governor 1713–1715) Charles Thorold...
London 1931), pp. 1-8 (Internet Archive). A.M. Mimardiere, 'Saltonstall, Richard (d.1601), of London and South Ockendon, Essex', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The...
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