Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet, (22 December 1842 – 28 June 1926) was a

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Background

He was the eldest son of John Baddeley and his wife Frances Beresford, fifth daughter of James Beresford. Baddeley was educated at Cambridge House School in Hackney.

Career

Baddeley was alderman of

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and a member of the

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from 1886. He was nominated Sheriff of the

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in 1908 and was made a

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in the following year. In 1921, Baddeley was appointed the 593rd Lord Mayor of London. After the end of his tenure in the following year, he was created a

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, of Lakefield, in the Parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington, in the

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on 24 November. Baddeley was a Commander of the Swedish

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and of the Russian

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. He served as justice of the peace for the

Family

On 13 August 1868, he married firstly Mary Elizabeth Locks, daughter of William Locks, and had by her nine children, four daughters and five sons. After her death in 1906, Baddeley remarried Florence Bertha Mathews, daughter of Joseph Douglas Mathews on 25 July 1912. He died in 1926 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of

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. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son John.

Works

*''A History of St Giles's Church'' (1880) *''The Aldermen of the City of London from 1276'' (1900) *''A History of the Guildhall'' (1912) *''Cripplegate: One of the Twenty-Six Wards of the City of London'' (1921)

References

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