Sir
John
"Lord Mayor of London"
Gayer
aka Gair
Born about in England
Ancestors 
Son of John Gayer
and Margaret (Trelawney) Gayer
Brother of
Humphrey Gayer and Richard Gayer
Husband of
Catherine (Hopkins) Gayer
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Catherine (Gayer) Abdy, Robert Gayer KB, Mary (Gayer) Henley, Elizabeth (Gayer) Godolphin and John Gayer
Died
at about age 65
[location unknown]
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| Created 5 May 2015
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Biography
John Gayer is Notable.
John Gayer or Gayre was an English merchant in the City of London who was Lord Mayor of London in 1646.
John Gayer was son of John Gayer of Plymouth in Devon, and his wife, Margaret Trelawney. [1]
He married Catherine Hopkins, daughter of Sampson Hopkins of Coventry. Names her father Samuel, not Sampson [1] They were parents of three daughter, Katherine, Mary and Elizabeth, [2] and two sons, Robert and John. [1]
He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in May 1640 with three other aldermen, Nicholas Rainton, Thomas Soame and Thomas Atkins, for refusing to list the inhabitants of his ward who were able to contribute £50 or more to a loan for King Charles but was knighted on the 3rd of December 1641 at Hampton Court [3] and elected Lord Mayor of London in 1646. [4]
John died on the 20th of July 1649. [1]
Research Notes
His nephew was Sir John Gayer, Governor of Bombay.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Visitations of Cornwall: 1530, 1573 & 1620 by J. L. Vivian Page 172: Gayer of Tenbrace
- ↑ The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine Vol. 3, Page 97-8: Godolphin Pedigree "Sir John Gayer Knt. Lord Mayor of London. Father of Elizabeth Gayer Godolphin"
- ↑ The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Page 211
- ↑ Wikipedia: John Gayer
- Robert Ashton, ‘Gayer, Sir John (bap. 1584, d. 1649)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 21 Aug 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.
- The Peerage.com: Sir John Gayer Cites: George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 34.
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