In 1673 Richard Gildart was born to James Geldart and Elizabeth Sweeting of Middleham, Yorkshire.
On 2nd November 1697 Richard Gildart [aged 24] became a Freement of the Liverpool Corporation.
In 1707 Richard Gildart [aged 34] and Ann Johnson [aged 16] were married. They had seven sons and six daughters.
In 1714, 1731 and 1736 Richard Gildart [aged 41] was elected Mayor of Liverpool.
On 25th April 1731 [his son] Thomas Gildart was born to Richard Gildart [aged 58] and [his wife] Ann Johnson [aged 40].
In 1734 Richard Gildart [aged 61] was elected MP Liverpool which seat he held until 1754.
In 1742 [his wife] Ann Johnson [aged 51] died.
In 1752 Richard Gildart [aged 79] was a founding member of the African Company of Merchants.
Around 1752 Joseph Wright of Derby [aged 17]. Portrait of "Richard Gildart [aged 79]".
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 25th January 1770 Richard Gildart [aged 97] died.