Sir William Leman, 1st Baronet (died 1667) was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1645 and 1660. Leman was the son of William Leman of Beccles and his wife Alice.John Burke, John Bernard Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies''
/ref> He was a woollen draper and a member of the

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. 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1651-1700', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 75-119.Date accessed: 16 July 2011
/ref> He was heir to his uncle, Sir

John Leman Sir John Leman (1544–1632) was a tradesman from Beccles, England who became Lord Mayor of London. Career Leman's business interests grew across the district of Waveney, which spans the Norfolk–Suffolk border. In the 1580s he moved to London ...

, Lord Mayor of London in 1617, and purchased the manor of Northaw in Hertfordshire, from William Sidley. He was

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in 1636 and

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in 1641. Leman was an alderman of the

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and was involved with Cornelius Fish, the

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, in running a charity in Bassishaw Ward established in 1638. In 1645, Leman was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He became an alderman of Bread Street ward in 1649. In 1651 he was a Councillor of State. He was chosen as alderman for Billingsgate ward on 12 July 1653. He resat as MP for Hertford in 1659 for the Restored Rump Parliament. Leman was created

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on 3 March 1665. Leman married Rebecca Prescot, daughter of Edward Prescot, of Thoby, in Essex, and of London. He had a son,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leman, William Year of birth missing 1667 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1648–1653 Aldermen of the City of London