Draper - Historical Drapers

Historical Drapers

A number of notable people who have at one time or another worked as drapers:

  • William Barley
  • Norman Birkett
  • Margaret Bondfield
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Anthony Munday
  • John Lewis
  • H. G. Wells
  • Edward Whalley, regicide, cousin of Oliver Cromwell
  • George Williams, founder of the YMCA

In 1724 Jonathan Swift wrote a series of satirical pamphlets in the guise of a draper called the Drapier's Letters.

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