Nicholas Woodroffe

Sir Nicholas Woodroffe (Woodruff, Woodrofe, etc.) (1530–1598) was a London merchant of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, who, through the English Reformation, rose in the Alderman class to become a Master Haberdasher, Lord Mayor of London and Member of Parliament for London.[1] Through the complexities of his family's relationships, and the position and security which they afforded, he lived to establish his family among the armigerous houses of late Elizabethan Surrey.

  1. ^ A.M. Mimardière, 'Woodrofe, Sir Nicholas (c.1530–98), of London; later of Poyle, Surr.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1558–1603 (Boydell & Brewer 1981). History of Parliament Online