Modern English biography

PIRIE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse, Berwickshire). _b._ Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept. 1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley, London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841; created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June