William Holliday

William Holliday

William Holliday (also spelled Hollidaie and Halliday) ("c"1565-February 14, 1624) was a wealthy London businessman and chairman of the East India Company.

He was apparently born in Gloucestershire. It is not clear who his parents were: Burke's "Commoners" makes him out to be the son of Lawrence and Anne Holliday of GloucesterBurke, J. (1836). "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland" Vol II] , but the children listed in Lawrence's will (1587) and the brother and sister named in William's will (1623) do not have the same names, so they appear to be different families. Nevertheless, according to William's will, he was a cousin of Sir Leonard Holliday, who was later Lord Mayor of London.

William was later sent to London, probably in the 1580s, where he served an apprenticeship in the Worshipful Company of Mercers, which controlled the city's textile industry.

He married "circa" 1600, Susan (or Susannah), the daughter of Henry Rowe, a prominent member of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers and later Lord Mayor (whose father, Sir Thomas, had been an earlier Lord Mayor). William and Susan had two daughters: Anne (born in 1602) and Margaret (born "circa" 1603).

William evidently had a successful career as a mercer. He was also involved in the East India Company, of which his cousin Sir Leonard had been a founder, and was elected as a 'committee', i.e. director, in 1616.

In 1617 he served as Master of the Mercers Company and was elected a sheriff for the yearHolladay, A.> (1983). "The Holladay Family"] . In February 1618, he was elected an alderman of the CityCokayne, G.E. (1897). "Lord Mayors and Sherriffs of London 1601-1625"] .

William's stature and success were reflected in the arranged marriages of his two daughters. In April 1619, after "long and ernest sollicitation" by the Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham, who was acting on instructions from King JamesWilliam Holliday's Last Will and Testament] , he married off Anne to Sir Henry Mildmay. In February 1620, William married off his younger daughter Margaret to Edward (later Sir Edward) Hungerford. They later lived at Farleigh Hungerford castle, and are buried there.

In 1621, William was elected governor of the East India Company, a position he held for the remaining three years of his life.

William died on 14 February 1624 and was buried in or near St Lawrence Jewry church. He left a substantial estate: around £40 000 in cash, and properties in London, Middlesex, and GloucestershireWilliam Holliday's Last Will and Testament] . His widow Anne later married the Earl of Warwick. She died in 1646Smith, C.F. (1901). "Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick"] .

Many years later, their daughter Margaret erected a monument to William, Anne, and her sister Anne, in St Lawrence Jewry church. It was irreparably damaged during an air raid in 1940Pope-Hennessy, J. (1941) "History Under Fire"] .

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