Sir William de la Pole, already mentioned, Knight of the Garter.
Alderman Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Mayor 1457, ancestor of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Nelson, and the Earl of Kimberley.
Alderman Loke, ancestor of John Locke, Lord Chancellor King, and the Earl of Lovelace.
Sir Stephen Broun, grocer, twice Mayor, 1438, 1448, ancestor of Lord Montague.
Robert Pakington and Alderman Barnham, ancestors of Earl Stanhope and Sir J. S. Pakington.
Alderman Sir Baptist Hicks, ancestor of the Earl of Gainsborough, the Marquis of Sligo, Admiral Lord Howe, Lord Byron, and Lord Raglan.
Sir William Holles, ancestor of the Earl of Clare.
Sir Edward Osborne, Mayor 1582, ancestor of the Duke of Leeds.
Thomas Legge, citizen and skinner of London, was twice Mayor thereof; he married Elizabeth, one of the daughters of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, which shows that even in those times the first nobility thought it no dishonour to intermarry with merchants. This Thomas Legge was direct ancestor of the Earl of Dartmouth.
Sir Richard Rich, ancestor of the Rich family, Earls of Warwick and Holland.