Sir Robert Kitchen (alt. Kytchen) was Alderman of Bristol. He died on 19 June 1594. He gifted one of the four bronze 'nails' (merchants' counting tables) to
The Exchange in Bristol.
Abel Kitchin, later Mayor of Bristol, was one of his four executors. It is not known if Robert Kitchin, who was originally from
Kendal
Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England, south-east of Windermere and north of Lancaster. Historically in Westmorland, it lies within the dale of th ...
, was Abel Kitchin's father or uncle.
[ Henry Swainson Cowper]
'Robert Kitchin, Mayor of Bristol; a native of Kendal', ''Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society'', 29 (1929), pp. 198, 201
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References
External links
Record copy of a portrait of Robert Kitchin, Bristol City Museums, M4073
1594 deaths
Businesspeople from Bristol
16th-century English nobility
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