Sir Charles Flower, 1st Baronet (18 February 1763 – 15 September 1834) was a merchant who served as
Lord Mayor of London
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in 1808–09.
Flower traded in salt meat, butter and cheese, and was described as having acquired "an ample fortune" by the time of his ascendency to the mayoralty.
He was created a
baronet
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, of the
Flower baronets, ''of Lobb in the
County of Oxford
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and of
Woodford in the
County of Essex
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'', on 1 December 1809.
Flower was appointed an
alderman
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in the
City of London
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's
Cornhill ward
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in 1801.
He had previously been elected one of the
Sheriffs of the City of London
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in 1799.
Flower was a
liveryman
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of the
Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters
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. Flower's daughter,
Anne Mary, became a noted horticulturist in Canada.
His son
Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet
Sir James Flower, 2nd Baronet (14 December 1794 – 17 May 1850) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1842 to 1846.
Flower was High Sheriff of Norfolk
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inherited the baronetcy, which became extinct upon his death without heirs in 1850.
References
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1763 births
1834 deaths
Aldermen of the City of London
19th-century lord mayors of London
19th-century English politicians
Sheriffs of the City of London
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
English merchants