Biography - John Graunt

John Graunt was born April 24th1620 and died April 18th 1674 of jaundice. He was the oldest of seven or eight children. His father Henry was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire and his mother was named Mary. In February 1641 he married Mary Scott, they had one son and three daughters.
He was educated in English, then he learned his father's profession at age 16.He taught himself Latin and French by studying in the morning before work.
He did well in business. He had become a huge merchant of London by the time of the Great Fire (1666).He was known as a great peacemaker and was often chosen to be a mediator between disputing merchants. He held several offices in the Drapers' Company: a Freeman at 21, granted the Livery of the Company at 38, and rose to the distinguished position of Renter Warden by age 50. He went through the typical ward offices of the city and was elected to the Common Council, which he was in that office for two......

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