John Dethick (died 1671) was
Lord Mayor of London
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in 1656 during
the Protectorate
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.
Biography
John Dethick was the son of John Dethick of
West Newington, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Methwold. He was a member of the
Worshipful Company of Mercers
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, Lord Mayor of London in 1656, and knighted by the
Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell
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on 15 September 1656. He died in 1671 at his country estate at
Tottenham
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in Middlesex and was buried in the church of
St Andrew Undershaft in London.
Family
Dethick married firstly Ann, daughter of Francis Smallpiece of Norwich and widow of Thomas Anguish. He married secondly Martha, daughter of Edmund Travers of London. He married thirdly Anne, daughter of Thomas Jolliff of Leek in Staffordshire.
He had no surviving children from his first or third marriage, but with his second wife Martha he had three children:
* Benjamin, who married Mary, daughter of John Harrison, a London merchant.
* Elizabeth, who married
Sir John Banks.
* Susan, who married Edward Rudge, a London merchant.
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1671 deaths
17th-century lord mayors of London
Year of birth unknown