English Dick Whittington

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English Dick Whittington

Media Archive for Central England
Pauntley Court
1959-07-15
Mute
2m

The story of povery stricken Dick Whittington travelling to London with a cat and finding fame and fortune has, like so many myths, some basis in truth. Richard Whittington was born at Pauntley in Gloucestershire in the 1350s and became Lord Mayor of London four times. His importance to the city was marked in 1959, approximately 600 years after his birth, when Harold Gillett, the Lord Mayor of London at the time, unveiled a plaque at Pauntley .

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