List of freemen of the City of Gloucester

This is a list of the freemen of the City of Gloucester.[1]

Arms of the City of Gloucester

17th-century

1653 - Robert Payne, member of Parliament.
1658 - Ralph Wallis, nonconformist pamphleteer, known as "the Cobler of Gloucester".

18th-century

1762 - Benjamin Hyett.[2]
1782 - John Phillpotts, land agent.
1789 - George Worrall Counsel, lawyer and antiquarian.[3]

19th-century

1813 - Benoni Hill, publican.[4]
1835 - George Viner Ellis, anatomist.[5]

References

Freemen of Gloucester. Gloucestershire Archives. Gloucester, January 2013.
Ripley, Peter, & John Jurica (Ed.) (1991) A Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. p. 136. ISBN 0900197323
Ripley & Jurica, p. 170.
Ripley & Jurica, p. 208.
Ripley & Jurica, p. 257.

Further reading

Langley-Smith, W. (1902) The Freemen of the City of Gloucester and the Corporation: A short history.
Anon. (1950) "The Freemen of Gloucester": An Account of the Chartered Freemen of the City of Gloucester.
Ripley, Peter, & John Jurica (Ed.) (1991) A Calendar of the Registers of the Freemen of the City of Gloucester 1641-1838. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. ISBN 0900197323

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