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Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet (1575June 1634) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1631. He was banker to King Charles I. Ducie was the eldest surviving son of Henry Ducie, merchant of London and his wife Mary Hardy. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. On 4 December 1620, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Farringdon Without ward. He was Sheriff of London from 1620 to 1621. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1621 to 1630. In 1625 he became alderman for Billingsgate and in 1627 for Bassishaw. He became president of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1628 and was created a Baronet on 28 November 1629. In 1631, he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He was on the committee of the East India Company again from 1631 to 1633.〔( 'Chronological list of aldermen: 1601-1650', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 47-75. Date accessed: 16 July 2011 )〕 Ducie accumulated immense wealth as a merchant, and despite having lost £80,000 when the King was driven from London during the Civil War, he was reputedly worth more than £400,000〔John Burke ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire'' 1832 - Page 396〕 at his death. Ducie married Elizabeth Pyott, daughter of Richard Pyott, Alderman of London, ca. 1608, and they had four sons: *Sir Richard Ducie Bt. d. 1656 *Sir William Ducie Bt. *Henry Ducie Esq. *Robert Ducie Esq. ==References== 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「Robert Ducie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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