William Benn (Lord Mayor of London)

William Benn (c. 1682 – 1755) was an English merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1746.

[1] Benn was a Jacobite, and he sent a message of support to Charles Stuart while Lord Mayor.

[1] In 1749 he was involved in a drunken fight with another Alderman at a London City feast after proposing a toast to the health of the Young Pretender.

[2] He was the originator of the so-called 'Benn's Club', consisting of himself and five other aldermen who were all Tories with Jacobite sympathies.

[4] Benn died, aged 73 years, on 10 August 1755 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Braughing, Hertfordshire.