Lionel Duckett

For the 17th-century Wiltshire MPs of the same name, seeCalne (UK Parliament constituency).

Sir Lionel Duckett
Born	1511
Died	August 1587 (aged 76)
Occupation(s)	Lord Mayor of London,four timesMaster of the Mercers' Company
Spouses	Mary Leighton Jane Baskerville (née Pakington) ​ ​ (m.1564⁠–⁠1587)​
Children	George Duckett Thomas Duckett
Parents	William Duckett Jane Redman

Sir Lionel Duckett(1511 – August 1587) was one of the merchant adventurers of theCity of London.He was four timesMaster of the Mercers' Company,andLord Mayor of Londonin 1572.

He was born in 1511 to William Duckett ofFlintham,Nottinghamshire and his wife Jane (née Redman), of Harwood Castle, Yorkshire. He served an apprenticeship with John Colet, of theMercers' Companyof the City of London, and was granted the freedom of the Company in 1537.

He became enormously wealthy through his trading. He subscribed toMartin Frobisher's three voyages in search of theNorthwest Passage,and toJohn Hawkins' voyage of 1562 which led to the formation of the Africa Company, paving the way for theAtlantic slave tradein later centuries.

In 1553, he acquired monastic andchantrylands in Surrey, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. In 1556, he acquired lands in Somerset and Devon. In 1572, he bought the manor ofCalne,Wiltshire.He later acquired property in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Kent.

In 1565 he served as aSheriff of London.The next year he became Master of the Mercers' Company, a position he also held in 1571, 1577, and 1583. In 1572–1573 he was Lord Mayor of London.

He died in August 1587 and his will wasprovedon 20 February 1588.

Family

He married twice.

1. Mary Leighton, by whom he had a short-lived son, George Duckett.
2. Jane Baskerville, (née Pakington, the widow of Humphrey Baskerville), on 29 June 1564 atSt Peter, Westcheap,by whom he had a son Thomas Duckett (1566–1608).

His nephewStephen(c.1548–1591, son of his brother John) succeeded him as lord of the manor of Calne.