Sir Richard Chiverton (died 1679) of the
Worshipful Company of Skinners was
Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powe ...
in 1658.
Biography
Chiverton was the eldest(?) son of Richard Chiverton (died 1621), of Trehunsey in
Quethiock
Quethiock ( kw, Koosek, meaning ''forested place'') is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, roughly five miles east of Liskeard. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 429, increasing to 443 at the ...
, Cornwall and Isabella (died 1631), daughter of —— Polwhele.
Chiverton of the
Worshipful Company of Skinners was
Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powe ...
in 1658. He was knighted on 22 March 1658 by the
Lord Protector
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three Ki ...
at Whitehall.
Chiverton officiated as mayor in proclaiming Richard Cromwell Lord Protector in September 1658. According to a long report in the ''
Mercurius Politicus
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'', (a newspaper which was sympathetic to the
Commonwealth
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) the proclamation "was followed by loud shouts and acclamations of the people ''God Save the Lord Protector''", but this was not the universal support implied, and when three days later the proclamation was read in Oxford the Oxford dignitaries and troopers "were pelted with carrot and turnip-tops, by young scholars and others, who stood at a distance".
[ cites Wood, ''Life'' (1772), pp. 115–116.]
He was the first Cornish Lord Mayor of London and did not fall out of favour at the
Restoration
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as he was considered for membership of the
Knights of the Royal Oak
The Knights of the Royal Oak was an intended order of chivalry in England. It was proposed in 1660 at the time of the Stuart Restoration, restoration of Charles II of England to be a reward for those Englishmen who had faithfully and actively su ...
. and was knighted by
Charles II on 12 October 1663.
Family
Richard Chiverton was married and had a daughter called Elizabeth who married
Sir John Coryton,
bart.
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* — a contemporary satirical song about a Lord Mayor from the Skinners Company (probably Chiverton).
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17th-century lord mayors of London
1679 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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