John Warner (Lord Mayor) Explained

John Warner (died 27 October 1648) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1647.

Warner was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He was Sheriff of London from 1639 to 1640. On 12 March 1640, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Queenhithe ward. From 1642 to about 1645, he was Colonel of the Green Regiment, London Trained Bands.^{[1] [2]} In 1647, he was elected 311th Lord Mayor of London.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Keith Roberts, London And Liberty: Ensigns of the London Trained Bands, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire: Partizan Press, 1987, ISBN 0-946525-16-1, pp. 38–9.
2. http://wiki.bcw-project.org/trained-band/london/green-regiment Green Rgt at British Civil War Project.
3. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67241 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1601-1650', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 47-75. Date accessed: 16 July 2011