James Esdaile (mayor)

Sir James Esdaile (c. 1714 – c. 1793) was an English banker who served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1777.

[1] His grandfather was a French nobleman and Huguenot from the De l'Estoile family who fled from the Kingdom of France in an attempt to avoid persecution by Louis XIV.

[2] His daughter, Louisa married the politician Benjamin Hammet, who subsequently became a protege of Esdaile's.

One of his sons, William Esdaile married the heiress of the Cothelstone estate in Somerset, which is still owned by his descendants, the Warmington family, in the 21st Century.

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