Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet (1575June 1634) was an English merchant who was

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in 1631. He was banker to King Charles I. Ducie was the eldest surviving son of Henry Ducie, merchant of London and his wife Mary Hardy. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the

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. On 4 December 1620, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for

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ward. He was

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from 1620 to 1621. He was a member of the committee of the

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from 1621 to 1630. In 1625 he became alderman for

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and in 1627 for

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. He became president of

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in 1628 and was created a

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on 28 November 1629. In 1631, he was elected

. He was on the committee of the East India Company again from 1631 to 1633. Ducie accumulated immense wealth as a merchant, and despite having lost £80,000 when the King was driven from London during the Civil War, he was reputedly worth more than £400,000John Burke ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire'' 1832 - Page 396 at his death. Ducie married Elizabeth Pyott, daughter of Richard Pyott, Alderman of London, ca. 1608, and they had four sons: *Sir Richard Ducie, 2nd Bt. d. 1656 * Sir William Ducie, 3rd Bt. *Henry Ducie Esq. *Robert Ducie Esq.

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