Sir Richard Champion, Kt., Lord Mayor of London

From Ian Chadwick's information on her grandson, Henry Hudson (the explorer):

http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_00.htm

His grandfather seems to have died in December, 1555, in London, of a "malignant fever." Six other aldermen died of it that year. A record of his funeral, December 20th, 1555, says the service was held at the Church of the Grey Friars in London. An inscription in that church notes the burial of Rudolph Hudson, husband of Elizabeth, on June 27, 1530. These may have been great grandparents of the explorer.

Henry's widow (the explorer's grandmother), Barbara, married the alderman Sir Richard Champion, who became Sherriff in 1558, then Lord Mayor in 1566. She died in 1568 (Magna Britannica says 1561, but her monument says 1568). She died "without issue" (childless from that marriage).

From https://www.google.com/amp/s/thepetrifiedmuse.blog/2016/01/17/a-poe...

The second monument of interest to me – also with an inscribed poem – belongs to a man of the same name (but of an earlier generation): Sir Richard Champion (d. 1568), draper and Lord Mayor of London in 1565-6. The monument is mounted to the blocked north door of the church, in close proximity to the former monument:

Sir Richard Champion, alderman, sheriff, and Lord Mayor of London, once owner of Hassenbrook Hall, died without issue and was buried in the church of St Dunstan-in-the-East, London.

Several records document his being a generous benefactor during his lifetime. His will contains a contribution for the benefit of the church and the poor of Stanford

References

• John Noorthouck, 'Addenda: The Mayors and Sheriffs of London', in A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark (London, 1773), pp. 889-893. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp889... [accessed 17 May 2019].
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126175898/richard-champion
• ”Declaration by Sir Richard Champion, Kt., Lord Mayor of London and the aldermen of the... “ link to NationalArchives