She was the daughter of a Cheapside mercer and wife of a Lombard Street goldsmith, and exercised great influence over Edward IV by her beauty and wit. |
The Bishop commissioned a mercer called Packington to buy up New Testaments directly from the Dutch. |
Lady Bennet was born Mary, the daughter of Robert Taylor, a mercer of London. |
Born in the Weald of Kent, Caxton went to London at the age of 16 to apprentice to a mercer. |
Thomas, only fourteen years older than Henry himself, was a respected mercer with a talent for languages and diplomacy. |
Allders started life in 1862 when 24-year-old Joshua Allder set up a linen draper and silk mercer at 102 and 103 North End. |