John Monckton (town clerk) explained

Sir John Braddick Monckton
Birth Date:8 July 1832
Birth Place:Maidstone, Kent, England
Death Place:Cranley Gardens, Middlesex, England
Resting Place:Brompton Cemetery
Known For:lawyer, civil servant, Town Clerk of London
Years Active:1851 - 1902
Parents:John Monckton, Eliza Whitmore Braddick
Relations:Lionel Monckton (son)

Sir John Braddick Monckton FSA (8 July 1832  - 3 February 1902)[1] was a British lawyer and civil servant, then Town Clerk of London for 30 years until his death.[2] He was elected Town Clerk of London after the death of Frederick Woodthorpe on 17 July 1873 and served until 3 February 1902, his death date. The "Remembrancer" officiated during vacancy until the next Town Clerk was elected on 1 May 1902.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Monckton Genealogy
  2. He is mentioned in the will of his son and his son's obit. Will probated 16 April 1924, CGPLA Eng. & Wales
  3. Monckton Genealogy - 1851 English Census Record info.
  4. Sherwell, John William - "Sadler's Company (London, England)" 1889. Full text at: https://archive.org/stream/descriptivehisto00sher/descriptivehisto00sher_djvu.txt
  5. The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers & Coach Harness Makers of London - Web site: The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers & Coach Harness Makers of London . 27 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090504124307/http://www.coachmakers.co.uk/committee/show/pagename/masters . 4 May 2009 .
  6. Fades Genes - John Monckton Case Ancestry - Web site: John Monckton CASE . 27 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111120031926/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trish.dixon/JohnMoncktonCASE.htm . 20 November 2011 .
  7. National Portrait Gallery - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp69947
  8. Oviatt Library - Francis Gilbert Webb Collection of Correspondence, 1769-1934 - Call No. ML90 .F73 1769 -Web site: Francis Gilbert Webb Collection of Correspondence, 1769-1934 . 27 May 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081203220823/http://library.csun.edu/Collections/SCA/SC/FG/fdgds7a.html . 3 December 2008 .
  9. Hyperion Records - Bio note: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C416
  10. Brompton Cemetery Brompton Cemetery website
  11. Libraries, Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery, "The Town Clerk", p. 74, from the - www.lma.gov.uk London Metropolitan Archives, [City of London, 40 Northampton Road, London EC 1R 0HB</ref> He was educated at Rugby School and while living on King Street in 1851 he became a Solicitor's [[Articled clerk]] for the City of London.[3]

    He represented the 'Guild of Saddlers of the City of London' in 1875.[4]

    He was a Master of 'Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London' in 1893 & 1894.[5]

    Family

    His parents were John Monckton (born about 1803 in East Peckham (Kent) - died September 1886 in Maidstone, Kent, England and Eliza Whitmore (maiden name unknown). He was one of ten children growing up on King Street, Maidstone, Kent, England.[6]

    In 1858 he married an amateur actress Maria Louisa Long (1837–1920).[7] [8]

    Their eldest son was composer Lionel Monckton.[9] Their daughter, Mrs. Augusta Moore, who wrote as 'Martin J. Pritchard,' was a popular novelist of the period.

    He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London[10] in the south-east part of the central enclosed roundel.

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