Stephen Slaney

Sir Stephen Slaney was an English politician and Lord Mayor of London. He served as Alderman of Portsoken, Sheriff of the City of London for 1584, and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1595.[1] He was a member of the Skinners Company.

Stephen Slaney was the grandson of Ralph Slaney of Yardley in Worcestershire.[2] He was married to a woman named Margaret. One of his daughters, Anne, married Thomas Colepeper, MP.[3] Another daughter, Mary, married Richard Bradgate and then married a later Lord Mayor of London, Humphrey Weld. His son, also named Stephen, married a daughter of Walter Aston, MP.

References

  1. E.J. Francis & Co. "Analytical Index To The Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia", pp. 80
  2. Burke, Bernard "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales", vol. 3, pg. 933
  3. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/colepeper-thomas-1561-1613


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