George Scholey

George Scholey was a banker who served as Lord [Mayor of London] in 1812. Scholey was appointed an alderman in the City of London's Dowgate Wards of the [City of London|ward] in 1804. He had previously been elected one of the Sheriffs of [the City of London] in 1804. Scholey was born in 1758, the son of the Cock and Bottle's landlord in Sandal, Wakefield. Scholey died in 1839, leaving £10,000 to Sandal, half for the poor of Sandal and half to the trustees of the Sandal Endowed School.