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Sir John Barnard (''c.'' 1685 – 28 August 1764)〔Edward J. Davies, “The Ancestry of Lord Palmerston”, ''The Genealogist'', 22(2008):62-77.〕 was a British Whig politician and Lord Mayor of London.〔D. W. Hayton, ‘(Barnard, Sir John (c.1685–1764) )’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 18 Oct 2009.〕 He was a son of John Barnard of London, a Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Payne of Play Hatch in Sonning on the border of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.〔Davies.〕 He was a Sheriff of London in 1736 and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1737.〔 He was elected at the 1722 general election as one of the four Members of Parliament (MPs) for the City of London. He held the seat for nearly 40 years, until the 1761 general election.〔 In 1734 he successfully promoted an Act of Parliament "to prevent the infamous practice of Stock-Jobbing". This Act, which was renewed in 1737, was known as "Sir John Barnard's Act".〔London Stock Exchange (1986)〕 Barnard was an opposition Whig, opposed to the administration of Sir Robert Walpole. In a speech in March 1738 Barnard said: A dishonourable peace is worse than a destructive war...All nations are apt to play the bully with respect to one another; and if the government or administration of a nation has taken but one insult tamely, their neighbours will from thence judge of the character of that nation...and will accordingly treat them as bullies do noted poltroons; they will kick and cuff them upon every occasion.〔Brendan Simms, ''Three Victories and a Defeat. The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783'' (Allen Lane, 2007), p. 252.〕 Barnard gained a positive reputation as a "hammer of the Spaniards" and at Lord Cobham's country house at Stowe, who predeceased Barnard, an ornate bust commissioned of Barnard was included in its Temple of British Worthies, along with Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake.〔Simms, p. 259.〕 ==References== ;Notes ;Sources * London Stock Exchange (1986). ''Sir John Barnard's Act 1734. Reproduced from the original Crown Printers' Copies''. Welwyn Garden City: Bournehill Press. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Barnard (British politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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