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A political history of Britain in the places where it happened: parliament and palace, courts and counting houses, and the streets where people pushed back.
The house the City built when it decided its Lord Mayor deserved a palace.
Money & the City
Also in Museums.
Until the eighteenth century a Lord Mayor entertained at his own expense, in his own house or his livery company's hall, which worked only if he happened to have one grand enough. After the Great Fire the City resolved that the office needed a permanent residence to match London's commercial weight. George Dance the Elder's design was begun in 1739 and the first mayor moved in during the 1750s. It is still residence, office and banqueting house for the Lord Mayor of the City of London - an office filled annually through the aldermen and liverymen, and nothing to do with the Mayor of London. The Egyptian Hall, which owes nothing to Egypt and everything to a Roman description of one, is where chancellors make their City speeches.
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