Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet

Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet (14 September 1671 – 11 September 1726) was a prominent Presbyterian layman, London pewterer, merchant and Lord Mayor of London. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1726. He was created a baronet on 13 December 1714.

"The King was pleased to make me a Barronett & my patent was ordered accordingly it bears date This favour was conferred on me for my fidelity to the Protestant Succession in the House of Hanover & not laying down my Gown(?) when the Torie Ministry had made the Law against Occasional Conformity contrived on purpose to throw & exclude Dissenters out of Publick places." husband of her mother's sister, Delicia Roberts.

Sir John died in his 55th year of gout in the stomach at his seat at Wherwell on 11 September 1726 when the baronetcy became extinct. Presbyterian John Ball preached the funeral sermon.

Timeline 14 September 1671, "on a Thursday at 4 in the afternoon" – birth at Well End, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Nephew of Edmund Boulter. "The house being the second from the lane which goeth up to a place called Flackwell Heath". attended the Grammar School in the parish taught by Minister Mr Thomas Beesly. "a very solid preacher and a good liver". to Katherine Weedon 1677–1718, daughter of Nathaniel Weedon, gentleman, previously tanner, of Denham Buckinghamshire. 26 July 1715 – elected Colonel of the Orange Regiment of Trained Bands but he did not accept it. 24 February 1716 – attended Derwentwater and Kenmure (as Sheriff of London) on the scaffold "to see their heads chopt off". 19 July 1720 – translated (from Pewterers) to the Fishmongers' Company in order to qualify for the lord mayoralty. 4 June 1721 – the Lady of Sir John Fryer, Lord Mayor of this city was delivered of a son and a daughter, Gabriel John and Dilitia. 28 October 1721 – at Guildhall surrendered to Sir William Stewart, lord mayor elect, the Chair and other Ensigns of Mayoralty. 30 October 1721 – at the installation of the new lord mayor there was a Tory mob who had the insolence to hiss the Rt. Honourable Sir John Fryer, the late Lord Mayor but they were well Drubbed. 1721–1722 – Prime Warden of the Fishmongers' Company. 16 August 1723 – second wife, Dorcas née Roberts dies, he narrowly recovers from the same illness. in his 55th year. Without surviving male issue being predeceased by three sons and one daughter.

He was survived by: daughters by Katherine Weedon: Bithia Brassey 1698–1742, his eldest daughter, whose own daughter married Quaker Thomas Dimsdale MD, Baron of the Russian Empire Susannah Fryer 1712–1731, who died unmarried daughter by Dorcas Roberts: Dilitia Iremonger 1721–1744, whose descendants remained at Wherwell Priory Some notable descendants: William Iremonger (1776–1852), nineteenth-century English colonel who erected the monument to Earl Athelwold of Wherwell Frederic Athelwold Iremonger, DD (1878–1952), eminent Anglican priest, radio broadcaster and Dean of Lichfield Harold Iremonger (1882–1937), Royal Marine officer and acting Governor of Saint Helena Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977), Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Thomas Iremonger (1916–1998), British Conservative Party politician

Arms and crest His coat of arms was Sable a chevron between three dolphins naiant Argent, a canton Ermine.

His crest was from a coronet Or, an heraldic antelope's head Argent, antlered and tusked, and tufted of the same.