William Jeffcock
Male, Deceased Person
1800 – 1871
Who was William Jeffcock?
William Jeffcock was the first Mayor of Sheffield.
Jeffcock was born in April 1800 in Handsworth, South Yorkshire, the son of John Jeffcock, a colliery owner. On 2 January 1827 he married Judith Stobart. They had at least two sons William Henry and and a daughter, Mary.
He was elected Mayor of Sheffield on 9 April 1843.
In 1846 he was made a Justice of the Peace. He was also a Major in the First West York Yeomanry Cavalry.
In 1850, on the family estate, he commissioned a mansion house High Hazels to be built "regardless of cost".
In 1867 a portrait was presented, which now hangs in the Lord Mayor's Parlour of Sheffield Town Hall.
He died 22 November 1871, in County Tyrone, Ireland.
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