Henry Keble

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Sir Henry Keble (died April 1517) was a London grocer who became Lord Mayor in 1510, in the second year of Henry VIII’s reign. He was a leading grocer and a Merchant of the Staple in Calais. Born in Coventry, he settled in the parish of St Mary Aldermary. Keble led the Grocers' Company, serving six times as Master. He left money to the company and £1,000 to rebuild the church at St Mary Aldermary. He was also an alderman and served as Sheriff of London in 1503 and Lord Mayor in 1510.

Keble’s daughter Alice (d. 1521) married first Sir William Browne (d. 1514) and after his death, William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy. In 1515 Keble, Mountjoy and others bought the manor of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. He left Apethorpe to his son George Keble, then to William Mountjoy and Alice his wife, with remainder to John Browne, Alice’s son by Sir William Browne, who had been Mayor of London.