Sir William Glover, knight & alderman of London

Seen as brother of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, but this man’s 1603 will names siblings, and they don’t match.

Sir William Glover was born in 1545. He died on 17 Dec 1603 in , London, Middx, England.

He married Anne Goverard-102719 on 6 Nov 1578 in , London, London, England.

Birth

Coventry, Warwickshire, England - In his Will, which he makes on 17th October 1603, William makes a bequest to "the poore people of the citye of Coventrie where I was borne one hundred markes to be delivered by my executrix to the Mayor of Coventrie aforesaid for the time being and to his Brethren the Aldermen of the same citye that the same maye be distributed to and amongest the poorest and neediest people of the same citye".

Family

Anne Goverard. was born in 1545 in England. She died in England. She married William Glover Sir-102733 on 6 Nov 1578 at Saint Mary, Prescot, Lancashire, England

They had the following children born (probably) in London:

• F i Ann Glover-102723 was born about 1580.
• F ii Alice Glover-102722 was born in 1583. She died on 14 Aug 1657.
• M iii Thomas Glover-102727 was born about 1586.
• M iv John Glover-102738 was born about 1590 i, England.
• F v Elizabeth Glover-102742 was born about 1592
• M vi William Glover-102744 was born about 1596
• F vii Susan Glover-102734 was born about 1598
• F viii Mary Glover-102743 was born about 1600
• M ix Henry Glover-102730 was born on 15 Feb 1603. He died on 2 Sep 1689

Thomas Glover, son of Sir William Glover and the Lady Anne his wife, was born in London, was created Knight, married Jane Roberts, daughter of Francis Roberts, Esq., of Willesden in Middlesex. He died in London, and his widow, the Lady Jane Glover, married George Purefoy, Esq., died 8 June, at 77 years???.William, the second son, married Elizabeth Harlakenden, daughter of Henry harlakenden, Esq. In 1660, William Glover, son to Sir William Glover, gave to the Hospital in London, Two Hundred Pounds??..Anne, the eldest daughter, married Barne Roberts, son to Francis Roberts, Esq., her cousin??..Susan, the second daughter, married Thomas Philpot, Esq., Norry Somerset Herald.

Inscription

◦Monumental Inscription: "Here lyeth in peace the body of the Right Worshipful Sir William Glover, Knight, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who, for the many good gifts both in sincere religion, wisedom, and gravity wherewith he was very plentifully graced, was elected Sheriffe of London, and served the same anno Domini 1601. He had lived in good name and fame fifty-eight yeeres, and very blessedly departed this transitory life the seventeenth day of December 163, leaving two sonnes, viz., Thomas and William, and five daughters, viz., Anne, married to Barne Roberts, of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; Susan, Elizabeth, Mary, and Alice, behinde him to condole the want of so kinde and loving a father. To whose dearest memory the Lady Anne Glover, the most sorrowful widdow of the said Sir William, lamenting his death and her own unrecoverable loss, at her own charge erected this monument, in testification both of her love and duty." Erected by his widow Lady Anne Glover

Will

• PROBATE: Will 1604 [PCC:44 Harte]. Dated 17 Oct 1603. Proved 19 Mar 1604.
• Mentions his six children then living, several relatives, viz.,
• my brother Robert Glover and his children under 21;
• my brother Thomas Glover deceased, to whom I was Executor and his children, Edward, John, Ann, Susan, Margaret Nicholason their sister, and William and Thmas glover their brothers;
• my sister Margaret Derbye and her son Laurence;
• also William Glover, son of kinsman Timothy Glover deceased;
• Thomas Glover, son of my uncle Thomas Glover;
• my cousins John Hopkins, Timothy Glover, and Anne Lowe;
• my sister Stone;
• brother John Stone and his son Henry Stone;
• my sister Seller, wife of Laurence Seller.
• He also mentions that he was formerly of the parish of Allhallows the Less, London.

Executor to the will of his brother Thomas.

DISTINCTION: One of the 17 alderman who were Knighted together 26 July 1603, Whitehall

Comments

How was he the brother of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald? Robert’s children were grown in 1604, not underage. Siblings also do not match the Will.

Notes

From Some Glover History, with information taken from "Glover Memorials and Genealogies" by Anna Glover, 1867, posted on (and accessed March 12, 2016):

http://www.glovernet.org/text/english%20history%20of%20glovers.htm

Glovers of Rainhill Parish. Prescott, Lancashire, England.

A William Glover was married to Anne Gaveiard, in Rainelill, November 6, 1578, and thought to be the one whose history follows. He could not have been the father of Thomas Glover of Rainehill, as Thomas himself was married only fourteen years after, in 1594, but there is some evidence that he was collaterally related. He had a Coat of Arms granted him in AD 1602. It is said to be the same arms which Fuller finds recorded in the Worthies of Middlesex, granted to William Glover, Sheriff, at an earlier date. The arms granted to William Glover of London, “Arg. A Chev. Ermine betwixt three Cross Crosslets,” were granted to him by Queen Elizabeth on year before his death. William Glover was buried in London, Colman Street Ward.

Origins

Glover memorials and genealogies by Glover, Anna (Publication date 1867). Page 18. < Archive.Org >

"This Robert was born in Ashford, a market town in Kent, of re- spectable parents. He was liberally educated, and died eminently skilled in many things, but remarkably well versed in Heraldry. His only brother, William, was born of Thomas and Mildred, but he had five sisters.

Thus it appears that the parents of this Robert Glover were Thomas Glover, of Ashford in the County of Kent, England, and Mildred his wife. Thus :

1. Robert, b. 1543, m. Elizabeth Flower, died April 10, 1588.
2. William, b. 1545, m. Anne , d. Dec. 17, 1603, London, se. 58.
3. Joanna, m. Richard Mylles, of Ashford in Kent.
4. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Deedes, of Wythe.
5. — _ m. John Philpot

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References

• Will of Sir William Glover, Alderman of London Reference: PROB 11/103/522 Description: Will of Sir William Glover, Alderman of London Date: 19 March 1604 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8676368
• Jenstad, Janelle, Greg Newton, and Kim McLean-Fiander, eds. The Agas Map of Early Modern London. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, 2013-present. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/agas.htm. < [https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/GLOV5.htm “ Sir William Glover. Knight and alderman.”
• https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowl... has errors
• http://mypages.allwest.com/~rognan/genealogy/pafg4357.htm#102733 (dead link)
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Glover-537
• Glover, Anna. Glover Memorials and Genealogies (David Clapp & Sons, Boston, 1867) Page 20, < GoogleBooks > ; Page 30. < GoogleBooks >
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218926083/william-glover
• http://www.thevalleyfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I8779326226&t...
• His nephew: Bosworth, C. Edmund. "Sir Thomas Glover, English Ambassador and Consul in Istanbul, 1606-11". East and West: Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Ages, edited by Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Vassilios Christides and Theodoros Papadopoullos, Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2009, pp. 269-276. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463216771-020
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Glover_(diplomat) Sir Thomas Glover was English ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1606 to 1611. Glover was born to a Protestant family, his great uncle had been burnt at the stake for his beliefs during the reign of Queen Mary, while during the reign of Elizabeth I his father rose to become Sheriff of London. According to Scottish author and traveller William Lithgow,[1] Glover was born to an English father and a Polish mother and was born and raised in Constantinople, where Glover served as secretary to the English ambassadors Edward Barton and Sir Henry Lello before succeeding Lello as ambassador on December 23, 1606. Fluent in Turkish, Greek, Italian and Polish, he was a competent diplomat and respected in the court. He is known to have imprisoned the Catholic traveler and scholar Hugh Holland for speaking out against Elizabeth.[2] The English writer William Strachey served as his secretary for a period and he also gave lodging to other travellers and writers including the aforementioned Lithgow and George Sandys. Glover was recalled to London in a company letter dated September 17, 1611. Glover's wife Anne Lambe, an English woman he had met and married in England and brought her to Constantinople,[3] died of the Plague 1608 but was not buried until 1612 in the city.
• Leiser, G. (2015). [Review of Eastward Ho! Diplomats, Travellers and Interpreters of the Middle East and Beyond, 1600–1940, by C. Edmund Bosworth]. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 135(1), 170–173. https://doi.org/10.7817/jameroriesoci.135.1.170