White merchant and businessman, associated with many acts of benevolence including a gift of £1,400 in 1542 for the city to buy lands to be held in trust for charitable purposes. The income from these lands was shared among deserving freemen of the city. (Also mayor of London in 1553, and founder of St. John's College, Oxford) Sir William Fitzthomas Wyley benefactor and twice mayor 1911–1912, purchased and presented Cook Street gate to the city in 1913, bequeathed his residence, the Charterhouse, to the city in 1940. Also colonel and founder of Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists. See also History of Warwickshire History of Birmingham Notes References The websites below were also used as references Further reading Albert Smith and David Fry: (1991). The Coventry We Have Lost. Vol 1. Simanda Press, Berkswell. Albert Smith and David Fry: (1993). The Coventry We Have Lost. Vol 2. Simanda Press, Berkswell. External links Coventry cathedral's official website Local history page from Coventry City Council Historic Coventry