Joan Leche, benefactress, was the wife successively of Thomas Bodley, and of Thomas Bradbury, Lord Mayor of London in 1509. She founded a chantry in London, and a grammar school in Saffron Walden, Essex. Her great-grandson, Sir John Leveson (1555–1615), was instrumental in putting down the Essex in 1601, and her great-grandson William Leveson acted as trustee for the original shareholders of the Globe Theatre.
- Born
- 1450
- Died
- March 1, 1530, March 1530
