Lionel Duckett

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death_date = August 1587 (aged 76)
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occupation = Lord Mayor of London, 4 times Master of the Mercers' Company
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spouse = Mary Leighton
Jane Baskerville, (née Pakington)
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children = George Duckett
Thomas Duckett
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Lionel Duckett (1511-August 1587) was one of the Merchant adventurers of the City of London, he was 4 times Master of the Mercers' Company, and Lord Mayor of London (1572).

He was born in 1511 to William Duckett of Flintham, Nottinghamshire and his wife Jane (née Redman), of Harwood Castle, Yorkshire. He served an apprenticeship with John Colet, of the Mercers' Company of the City of London, and was granted the freedom of the Company in 1537. He became enormously wealthy through his trading. In 1553, he acquired monastic and chantry lands in Surrey, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. In 1556, he also acquired lands in Somerset and Devon. In 1566, he also became Master of the Mercers' Company - a position he also held in 1571, 1577 and 1583. In 1572, he bought the manor of Calne, Wiltshire. The same year, he became Lord Mayor of London. By the time of his death, he also owned property in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Kent.

He died in August 1587 and his will was proved on February 20 1588.

He married twice:
#Mary Leighton, by whom he had a short-lived son, George.
#Jane Baskerville, (née Pakington, the widow of Humphrey Baskerville), on June 29 1564 at St Peter's Westcheap, by whom he had a son Thomas.