Sir John Silvester, 1st Baronet
Sir John Silvester, 1st Baronet,  (7 September 1745 – 30 March 1822) was an English lawyer and Common Serjeant of London from 1790 to 1803, and Recorder of London from 1803 until his death in 1822. Born in Yardley House in Chingford, Silvester was the son of Sir John Baptist Silvester M.D.,  FRS (died 1789), of Dutch descent and physician to the army in the Low Countries, under the Duke of Cumberland during the War of the Austrian Succession. In 1753 aged 8 John Silvester attended Merchant Taylors' School when  James Townley was the Headmaster. He took part in the theatrical activities encouraged by Townley and was Head Monitor in 1761. He attended St John's College, Oxford, from 1764 and took his BCL in 1771.