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Robert Kitchin

British merchant, Alderman and Mayor of Bristol in the 16th century

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ31104390 ↗
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Sir Robert Kitchen (alt. Kytchen) was Alderman of Bristol. He died on 19 June 1594. He gifted one of the four bronze 'nails' (merchants' counting tables) to The Exchange in Bristol.

Abel Kitchin, later Mayor of Bristol, was one of his four executors. It is not known if Robert Kitchin, who was originally from Kendal, was Abel Kitchin's father or uncle.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Kitchin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.