Sir Thomas Bradbury, Textile Mercer,Lord Mayor City of London

Thomas Bradbury, Mercer

Textile Mercer,Lord Mayor City of London

Sheriff 1498-9. Mayor 1509-10. M.P. London 1495; Auditor 1509-10; Master Mercers 1508. Died 11 Jan 1510; Will (PCC 26 Bennett) 9 Jan; proved 27 Feb 1510.

Source: The Aldermen of the City of London

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He was of the same family as Sir Thomas Bodley (founder of the Bodleian Library), and bore the same coat of arms: 'Gules, five martlets argent on a chief indented or three crowns azure';[3] the precise connection has not been identified.

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A number of wealthy individuals lived locally and contributed generously to the building but a large part of the money was raised by the efforts of John Leche, who was Vicar of Walden from 1489 to 1521, and his sister Jane (Johane) who married Thomas Bradbury, the Master of the Mercers Company in the City of London and Lord Mayor of London from 1509 until his death early the following year.Her name lives on in Saffron Walden, of course, in the title of Dame Bradbury's School in Ashdon Road These two, together with four other notable citizens of the town, created the Guild of the Holy Trinity whose history and purposes are set out in Appendix 7. it was chiefly through the work of this Guild that the building of the church was carried through to its successful conclusion.

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