1. William Garrard worked hard and invested largely to expand English overseas trade not only to Russia and the Levant but to the Barbary Coast and to West Africa and Guinea.
14 Facts About William Garrard
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William Garrard is remembered for his labours on behalf of the London hospitals and for his efforts in practical help for poor and sick inhabitants of London.
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William Garrard was descended from an old gentry family of Sittingbourne, Kent, which had formerly gone by the name of Attegare.
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William Garrard grew up in the parish of St Magnus-the-Martyr near London Bridge; he was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, and was married to Isabel Nethermill by 1539, when he was named an overseer in the will of his father-in-law Julian Nethermill of Coventry, who made small bequests to each of Garrard's children.
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William Garrard was one of the signatories to the Letters Patent for the Limitation of the Crown.
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William Garrard was among the original developers of the Moroccan trade.
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In 1556 William Garrard transferred his aldermanry to the Lime Street ward, and served as Auditor.
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William Garrard was the Master of the Haberdashers Company in 1557, and in that year was returned as Member of Parliament for City of London.
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William Garrard devoted much attention to drawing up constitutions for new hospitals.
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William Garrard was able to accompany them safely to Tenerife before the two parties went about their separate affairs.
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William Garrard said that Garrard and others of the Company had the direction of the voyage, and by their authority committed to Hawkins not only the command of the fleet but to consider for himself the "state of the Traffic" in the places they came to.
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William Garrard was the subject of one of the epitaphs of John Phillips.
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William Garrard first made provision for the completion of arrangements concerning the school at Bangor, including various contributions towards stipends and other endowments.
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William Garrard gives the advowson of the rectory of Frindsbury in Kent to her son Peter Garrard.