Robert Hampson (sheriff)

Sir Robert Hampson was one of the two Sheriffs of the City of London in 1599 with Edward Holmeden. He was an Alderman of the City of London and was knighted by King James I on his entry into England in 1603.

Marriage

He married Katheren Goad, daughter of John Goad, a Citizen of London and member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. She survived him and remarried to Sir John Rotheram, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, Watford, Hertfordshire, where survives her mural monument, a lady kneeling at a prie dieu with open book thereon. She is buried in the floor beneath, under a black slab inscribed as follows:

Children

By his wife he had nine children, of whom four survived, two sons and two daughters:

Nicholas Hampson, died unmarried
Sir Thomas Hampson, 1st Baronet, created a baronet by King Charles I on 3 June 1642.
Rebecca Hampson, wife of Sir Anthony Forest of Marston, Huntingdonshire.
Elizabeth Hampson, who married three times:
*Firstly to John Hewet of Headly Hall, Yorkshire, by whom she had Sir John Hewet, 1st Baronet
*Secondly to Sir Gilbert Wakering, of Brockwith, Staffordshire
*Thirdly to Sir Robert Bevile, KB

Death and burial

He died on 2 May 1607 and was buried in St Mary-at-Hill Church, Billingsgate, in the City of London. His funeral was marshalled and attended by the heralds. His mural monument existed on the south wall of the choir inscribed thus, as transcribed in a later edition of the Survey of London by John Stow :