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VINER, SIR ROBERT (1631-1688)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 97 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VINER, SIR ROBERT (1631-1688) , lord mayor of London, was born in
Warwick
 , but migrated in early life to London, where he was apprenticed to his uncle, Sir
Thomas
 
Viner
  (1558-1665), a goldsmith, who was lord mayor of London in 1653-54, and who was created a
baronet
  in 1661. Soon Robert became a partner in his kinsman's business, and in x666 an alderman of the city of London; in 1665 he was made a knight, and in the following year a
baronet
 . He was sheriff during the year of the
great
  fire in London, and was chosen lord mayor in 1674. Combining like his uncle the business of a banker with that of a goldsmith,
Viner
  was brought much into contact with Charles II. and with the court. The king attended his mayoral banquet, and the lord mayor erected an equestrian statue in his honour on a spot now covered by the
Mansion
 
House
 . Having been appointed the king's goldsmith in 1661, Sir Robert was one of those who lent large sums of money for the expenses of the state and the extravagances of the court; over 400,000 was owing to him when the national
exchequer
  suspended payment in 1672, and he was reduced to the necessity of compounding with his creditors. He obtained from the state an
annuity
  of 25,000. Viner died at Windsor on the 2nd of September 1688.
See Viner: a Family History, published anonymously (1885).


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