AND Wardens. 



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^ A rich Turkey merchant, Alderman of the City of London, 

 but did not serve the office of Lord Mayor. Elected Master 

 in 1653, he presented the Company in the same year with a 

 handsome silver gilt standing cup and cover weighing sixty-two 

 ounces and a half, which are still preserved. His gift of a 

 barge cloth and banners has already been noticed. Upon his 

 death, in 1683, he bequeathed the sum of ;/^3o to be dis- 

 tributed amongst the poor of the Company, and a smaller sum 

 to the Company for a supper at his funeral. According to 

 Burke he married a daughter of Mr. Alderman Sleigh, and 

 was grandfather of Lord de Spencer, an ancestor of the 

 present Sir Edwin Abercromby Dashwood, Bart., and Sir John 

 Gage Saunders Sebright, Bart. His son. Sir Samuel Dashwood, 

 was Alderman of the Ward of Aldgate, and served the 

 office of Lord Mayor in 1702, whose daughter married the 

 fifth Lord Brooke, an ancestor of the present Earl of Warwick. 



"' Alderman of the City of London, but did not serve the 

 office of Lord Mayor. 



^ Founded a charity, which is at present administered by 

 the Company under a scheme sanctioned by the Charity Com- 

 missioners, for the relief of poor decayed Saddlers and their 

 widows, preferentially those free of the Company. 



* Presented the Company with a silver salt. 



