Sir John Tash (c. 1673 – 12 October 1735) was a leading wine merchant in London in the early eighteenth century. He was alderman for the ward of Walbrook in the City of London and a sheriff of London in 1720.
Early life[edit]
John Tash was born around 1673. Among his children was his second son Thomas Tash (1730-1794)[1] by his second wife Elizabeth[2][3] who built Vale Mascall, a house in Ruxley Hundred, Kent.[4] Thomas was governor of the English Copper Company and one of the King's commissioners of customs. He died in 1770.[2]
Career[edit]
Tash was a successful wine merchant who owned the Castle Tavern, on the south-western corner of Shoe Lane in London. He was described by T. C. Noble in Memorials of Temple Bar (1869) as the "most considerable wine merchant of his day" with "a quarter a million of money".[5]
He was an alderman for the ward of Walbrook Ward in the City of London and a sheriff of London in 1720.[6]
Death and legacy[edit]
Tash died on 12 October 1735,[7] age 62, and was buried and remembered with various members of his family in a plaque at the church of All-Hallows the Great.[8][9]
References[edit]
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- ^ "Parishes: North Cray with Ruxley | British History Online".
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- ^ Noble, T. C. (1869) Memorials of Temple Bar; with some account of Fleet Street, and the Parishes of St. Dunstan and St. Bride, London. &c. London: Diprose & Bateman. p. 109.
- ^ Lambert, B. (1806). "The History and Survey of London and Its Environs from the Earliest Period to the Present Time".
- ^ "Beaven a B the Aldermen of the City of London Temp. Henry III. With Notes on the Parliamentary Representation of the City, the Aldermen and the Livery Companies, Etc 1908".
- ^ "The churches of London: A history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis". 1838.
- ^ "Londinium redivivum; or, an antient history and modern description of London". 1802.