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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