William Pickett (alderman)

William Pickett (died 1796) was an English goldsmith and local politician, Lord Mayor of London in 1789.

[2] In December 1781 his daughter died of burns after her clothes caught fire the previous evening.

[5] In London's Court of Alderman he belonged to the Whig group, opposed to the government of William Pitt the younger in the 1790s.

[7] While this scheme for street widening was thrown out, Pickett did succeed with another, near the Strand in the area of St Clement Danes.

[10] A reforming Lord Mayor for 1789, Pickett then stood as a parliamentary candidate, for the City of London, in 1790.