John Cutler (dealer)

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Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet

Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet (around 1608 - April 15, 1693 ) was an English trader and financier. He is the founder of the Cutler Lecture held at Gresham College .

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John Cutler was the son of Sir Thomas Cutler, a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers . He gave up his trading business early and turned to financial business. Cutler specialized in lending to impoverished landowners, for whom he took their property as collateral in return. In this way, he acquired considerable land holdings during the English interregnum from 1649 to 1660.

After the restoration of the English royal family, he loaned them 5,000 pounds, which on November 12, 1660, gave him the hereditary title of Baronet , of London, in return . In 1664 Cutler donated the Cutler Lecture at Gresham College, endowed with 50 pounds annually, for Robert Hooke . On November 9, 1664 he was elected as an honorary member of the Royal Society . In 1673 he was a member of the Council of the Royal Society. After the Great Fire of London , he helped finance the rebuilding of the reception and dining rooms of the Grocers' Company and the Royal College of Physicians .

From 1679 to 1680 he was an MP in the House of Commons for the constituency of Taunton and from 1689 to 1693 for the constituency of Bodmin.

John Cutler was buried in the cemetery of St Margaret's Church in Westminster on April 28, 1693 . Since he had no sons, his title of nobility expired on his death.

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  • John Gorton: A General Biographical Dictionary . Volume 1, Whittaker, London 1833, without page numbers, (online) .
  • DW Hayton: Cutler, Sir John (1607 / 8-1693) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, January 2008, doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 6980 , (accessed February 21, 2011).
  • Hugh James Rose: A New General Biographical Dictionary . Volume 6, Fellowes [et al.], London 1848, without page numbers, (online) .

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SURNAME Cutler, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cutler, Sir John, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English trader and financier, founder of the Cutler Lecture
DATE OF BIRTH around 1608
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1693