Owen Buckingham

Biography:

Sir Owen Buckingham was an English merchant alderman MP and Lord Mayor of London. He was born the son of George Buckingham an innkeeper of Stanwell Middlesex. By 1680 he was a liveryman in the Butchers’ Company of the City of London and by 1692 a liveryman of the Salter's Company. He became involved in local city politics and was a common councilman for London in 1689–90 and 1691–96 and an alderman from 1696 to his death.