Bodenham [Bodnam], John (c. 1559–1610), literary patron and grocer, was born in London, perhaps in the parish of St Stephen Walbrook. He was the eldest son in a family of five children of William Bodnam (d. 1580), grocer, and his wife, Katherine Wanton (...
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Bodenham [Bodnam], John (c. 1559–1610), literary patron and grocer
Arthur F. Marotti
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Lloyd, Edward (c. 1648–1713), coffee-house keeper, publisher, and eponymist of ‘Lloyd's insurance’
Sarah Palmer
Lloyd, Edward (c. 1648–1713), coffee-house keeper, publisher, and eponymist of ‘Lloyd's insurance’, was probably born about 1648, but nothing is known of his origins. He was the proprietor of a London coffee house licensed some time between March 1685 and 1687. This was almost certainly '...