Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet (22 December 1842 – 28 June 1926[1]) was a Lord Mayor of London.

[3] He was nominated Sheriff of the City of London in 1908 and was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year.

[5] After the end of his tenure in the following year, he was created a baronet, of Lakefield, in the Parish of St Mary, Stoke Newington, in the County of London on 24 November.

He was the oldest of twelve siblings; George Charles, Fredrick, William Henry, Frances Eliza, Charles Edward, Emma, Horace, Walter, Adele, Jesse, Lizzie and Alfred.

[7] He died in 1926 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.