Volume 1

Catalogue of sculpture, paintings, engravings, and other works of art belonging to the Corporation, together with books not included in the catalogue of the Guildhall Library.

Date:
1867-1868
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of sculpture, paintings, engravings, and other works of art belonging to the Corporation, together with books not included in the catalogue of the Guildhall Library. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PORTHAITS. 77 SIR ROBERT CLAYTON, Knt., Alderman. Painted by order of tlie Governors of the London Work- house; and removed from the Court-room to the Library upon the breaking up of that establishment. A native of Buhvick in the county of Northampton ; elected Alderman of Cordwaiuer Ward, 16th June, 1670 ; removed to Cheap Ward, 30th June, 1676; chosen Sheriff of London and Middlesex, 34th June, 1671; Member of Parhament for - the City of London, 1678, and for Blechingly, 1690, 1698, and 1703; elected Lord Mayor of London, 29th September, 1679 ; first President of the London Workhouse, 1G80, besides being the projector of the Mathematical School of Christ's Hospital, he also rebuilt the South Front in 1683 ; elected Pre- sident of St. Thomas's Hospital, 18th Febnaary, 1691, to which estabhshment he left considerable property by his will, dated 14th December, 1706 ; died July, 1707. [The frame is surrounded by civic emblems entwined with fruit and flowers, bearing the following Shields of Arms. Sir Robert Clayton's, Su* Robert impaled with his wife's. The City Arms. The Badge worn by the Children of the London Workhouse (a Naked Boy and a Sheep), and a device from the Seal of the same (a Hive and Bees on a Chief with several Ears of Wheat in the field. Carved in wood, by Grinling Gibbons.] 78 SIR WILLIAM DOLBEN. Presented by Sir William Hey gate, Bart., Chamberlain. Son of Dr. WiUiam Dolben, rector of Stanwick in Northum- berland ; admitted a Student of the Inner Temple, September 1648 ; caUed to the Bar, 1653 ; received the honorary degree of M.A. at Oxford, 1665 ; elected a Bencher of the Inner Temple, 1673, and Autumn Reader, 1677. Elected Recorder of the City of London, on the recommendation of King Charles II., 8th February, 1676, and knighted; appointed King's Serjeant, 1677. In this character he opened the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for the murder of Nathaniel Cony, before the House of Lords, when the earl was found guilty of manslaughter. Resigned that ofiice 32d October, 1678 ; made Judge of the King's Bench, 23d October, 1678 ; but being suspected of not being favourable to the Crown in its attempt against the Charters of the City of London, he was superseded, 30th April, 1683 ; replaced by Wihiam III., 11th March, 1689. (The Corporation of London presented him with a piece of Plate, value 50/., upon his eleva- tion to the Bench, 19th November, 1678.) He died suddenly, 25th January, 1694, and was buried in the Temple Church.
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