Thomas White (merchant)

Thomas White (1492 – 12 February 1567) was an English cloth merchant, civic benefactor and founder of St John's College, Oxford.

A principal member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, he served as Sheriff of London in 1547, and was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1553

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