Robert Hampson (sheriff)

Sir Robert Hampson (1537–1607) was one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London in 1599 with Edward Holmeden.

He was an Alderman of the City of London and was knighted by King James I on his entry into England[2] in 1603.

[3] She survived him and remarried to Sir John Rotheram, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, Watford, Hertfordshire, where survives her mural monument, a lady kneeling at a prie dieu with open book thereon.

She is buried in the floor beneath (not with her first husband as his monument in St Mary Hill Church, Billingsgate, suggests[4]), under a black slab inscribed as follows:[5] By his wife he had nine children,[6] of whom four survived, two sons and two daughters: He died on 2 May 1607 and was buried in St Mary-at-Hill Church, Billingsgate, in the City of London.

[8] His mural monument existed (before the church was largely destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666) on the south wall of the choir inscribed thus, as transcribed in a later edition of the Survey of London by John Stow (c.1525-1605):[9]