attended his inauguration, and in his dedicatory letter wrote: "...of you it may be undeniably spoken: that none ever in your place was more sufficient or able, any cause whatsoever shall be brought before you, more truly to discerne; being apprehended more aduisedly to dispose, being digested, more maturely to despatch." He was Master of the Haberdashers Company again from 1631 to 1632. He was knighted on 27 May 1632. From 1632 to 1642 he was president of Bethlem and Bridewell. He was a strong supporter of the King in the Civil War, and was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians as a 'delinquent'. In 1641, he received King Charles I at Balmes Manor, which had been purchased for him in 1634 by his elder brother Sir William Whitmore of Apley, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1620. Family Sir George Whitmore married Mary Copcott, daughter and heir of Reynold Copcott, step-daughter of Richard Daniel of Truro, and sister of Alexander Daniel whom she names in her will probated 1657. Their children were: William Whitmore, of Balmes, Hackney, married Frances. Charles Whitmore, inherited the manor of Ottringham, Yorkshire George Whitmore Elizabeth Whitmore, married Sir John Weld (died 1681) of Willey, Shropshire. Her daughter married Richard Whitmore, jnr, of Lower Slaughter. Anne Whitmore, married Sir John Robinson, Lord Mayor of London in 1662. Margaret Whitmore, married Sir Charles Kemeys, 2nd Baronet, of Cefn Mably. Mary Whitmore, baptized 1615 References Year of birth missing 1654 deaths 17th-century lord mayors of London English merchants Haberdashers Sheriffs of the City of London Cavaliers