William Herrick (MP)

Biography:

Sir William Herrick was an English jeweller courtier diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1622. Herrick was the son of John Heyrick of Leicester and was baptised on 9 December 1562. His father was an ironmonger at Leicester. He was sent to London in about 1574 to be apprenticed to his elder brother Nicholas Herrick a goldsmith in Cheapside.