LIVERY April 2015 BRIEFING From the Chairman of the Livery Committee. Common Serjeant The service is no longer held on Lady The Queen has appointed His Honour Day, but usually two weeks before Dear Clerk, Judge Richard Marks QC to be the Good Friday - hence next year 11 Common Serjeant of London on the March 2016; and always preceded Herewith the latest edition of the advice of the Lord Chancellor. He the night before by the Lord Mayor’s bi-monthly Livery Briefing, for onward will be based at the Central Criminal Dinner for Masters. distribution to your livery, please. Court (The Old Bailey) and took up post with effect from 9 March. 33rd annual Inter Livery Bridge The content draws heavily on the Judge Marks succeeds His Honour Competition News pages at the Livery Committee Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, recently 60 Team Pairs attended this year’s website, where you can find details appointed the Recorder of London. event on 2 March at Drapers’ Hall, and links to a host of livery related In addition to duties as the second representing 41 different Companies. information. If you wish to post any senior judge at the Old Bailey, the item on the site (please aim for Common Serjeant oversees the The highest overall placed Champion between 50-150 words), please email elections at Common Hall. Judge Pair were Mark Nichols and Roy me at [email protected] Marks is a member of the Cooks’ Griggs of the City Solicitors’ Company, Company. who were presented with their trophy Please may I also draw your attention by the Lady Mayoress. to the Diary menu tab. Similarly if Freedom of the City of London you wish to list any date of general Freedom proposals, including an Other awards were announced interest beyond your own livery, increase in the Freedom fine to by the Master Cardmaker Captain please tell me, with web links as £100, were approved by Common Michael Davis-Marks OBE RN, and appropriate. Council on 5 March. This is the first presented to pairs from the Actuaries’ increase since 1994. Accounting (best Company), Spectacle Makers’ To comment or contribute to future arrangements will be put in place to (best married couple), Dyers’, editions of the Briefing, please ensure that the same quantum from Chartered Accountants’ (improvers) contact either myself at nrpullman@ the fines goes to theCity of London and the Makers of Playing Cards, the btinternet.com or Gregory Moore Freeman’s School bursary scheme as latter of course, being the organisers! (Senior Committee and Member previously. The effective date for the Services Officer, Town Clerk’s increased fee was 1 April. For more on Next year’s 34th annual event will be Department) at gregory.moore@ this contact Murray Craig (the Clerk on Monday 7 March 2016. See also cityoflondon.gov.uk Back numbers of to the Chamberlain’s Court) at the Diary. earlier Briefings are in the Library at [email protected]. the website, as is this one. Marine Cadets at the Stationers’ United Guilds Service Company - The Times report Thank you. The 73rd Service of the United On 7 March The Times newspaper Guilds of the City of London carried a full report on the news Nigel Pullman was held at St Paul’s on 20 March, that outstanding Royal Marines Livery Committee when representatives of the Livery cadets had been honoured during a Companies packed the Cathedral to ceremony at the Stationers’ Hall the previous week. Ian Locks, the Master, NEWS capacity. The UGS was first held on Lady Day in 1943 to help lift the spirits presented the Stationers’ Cup. Full of the City following the Blitz during report at Times online. Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for the Second World War. Greater London Scientific Instrument Makers celebrate The Queen has been pleased to Opening the service, The Very Hooke appoint Mr Kenneth Olisa OBE FBCS Reverend David Ison, Dean of St The Scientific Instrument Makers FRSA as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant Paul’s, said: “We give thanks to God (SIM) held three events in March to of Greater London to succeed Sir for the fellowship and service of the celebrate the 350th anniversary of David Brewer CVO CMG when he Livery Companies: for the customs the publication of Robert Hooke’s, retires on 28 May 2015. which carry the memory of times past Micrographia, the first book to record into the future with confidence and observations using magnifying lenses. Ken is a past master of the hope; for the skills and talents which Information Technologists’ Company, they represent and promote in each The first event took place at Glaziers and a member of the First XI Past generation; and for the generosity of Masters’ association. More and Hall where 250 children were given their charitable work which provides access to science equipment biographical notes at Gov.UK opportunities for others to share the that is usually reserved for A-level many blessings that we enjoy. or undergraduate students. With 1 expert guidance they used light to make happen or fought to and electron microscopes as part of preserve. a “crime scene investigation” that tested their analytical, artistic, and The Central Council of Church Bell problem-solving skills. Prizes were Ringers will be organising a national awarded in the afternoon by Alan peal of bells to take place at 3pm. Yarrow, the Right Honourable Lord Event ideas and further information Mayor of London. can be found at www.liberteas.co.uk With support from SIM, the Museum Banquet to Commemorate the 200th of the History of Science in Oxford ran Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo ‘Hooked on Invention’ - a packed The Guildhall is the venue for this day full of hands-on activities, talks event, to take place on Wednesday LiveryCompanies.info and demonstrations for all ages. 17 June, being organised by a This Livery Committee website has The final event in the Micrographia committee of Old Wellingtonians with recently been re-organised to help celebration also took place in the connections to the City. your navigation. Amongst many other Museum of the History of Science in enhancements, complete historical Oxford, with lectures from Professor Liverymen and friends are warmly lists of Lord Mayors, Sheriffs and Peter Nellist, President of the Royal invited to join the evening and Aldermen since 1189, with their wards, Microscopical Society, the Master of celebrate this milestone in our livery companies etc., may now be the Scientific Instrument Makers who country’s history. Tickets are downloaded from the A-Z Lists menu gave the Minerva Lecture and Dr available at www.eventsforce.net/ item. Jim Bennett, former director of the waterloo200banquet museum, who spoke on Hooke. FishHall.co.uk Inter Livery Tennis As reported in the last edition, This annual competition will be held at work has begun on migrating the The Queen’s Club on Wednesday “Fishmongers” website to a new DIARY DATES 9 September. NB Date change. host. Research into the ‘requirement’ For more information, contact the (largely unchanged from what is Europhilex Stamp Exhibition Feltmakers’ Company. presently available) is complete, and An exhibition has been put together the first stage is underway. by Deputy Anthony Eskenzi to mark Annual Sheep Drive the Europhilex Stamp Exhibition, now The Worshipful Company of Woolmen in its 125th year. Held at the Guildhall will be organising the annual sheep Library from 12 – 16 May, this postal drive across London Bridge again this history exhibition tells the story of year, on Sunday 27 September. the revolution in communication, supported by the City of London. Application forms will be available at In the nineteenth century New the end of April from the Woolmen’s Post Office reform was very much website at www.woolmen.com or needed, as the cost of sending a can be requested by email from letter was prohibitive. The situation [email protected] was to change dramatically in January 1840; this exhibition tells the story of how communication changed forever. NOTICES The exhibit will be open daily 9.30am to 5pm (except Wednesday until Letter to The Times - Thursday 9 April 4pm, Friday 4pm and Saturday 1pm). Liverymen may have noticed the below letter, published in The Times on Liberteas 9 April: Monday 15 June marks the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Sir, Eugene Suggett (letter, Apr Carta. As part of the national 4) refers to a “workman” re-lettering programme of activities to celebrate a worn gravestone at Westminster Magna Carta and the Montfort Abbey. Not so. This man was a Parliament, Parliament and the stonemason, as skilled as the National Trust are encouraging Cotswold stone carver who carved organisations to participate in a series the stone eagle, recently discovered of events called Liberteas. in London, nearly 2,000 years ago. The event will take place on the Next year will mark the 660th afternoon of Sunday, 14 June at 3pm. anniversary of the Worshipful Individual Liberteas can range from Company of Masons. We help an organisation led debate to an hundreds of young stonemasons to afternoon tea for a few friends at learn the skill. Please don’t let us be home – any activity which provides cast as odd-job folk. people with a moment to celebrate, debate and reflect on those rights Patricia Langley which we very often take for granted Liveryman, the Worshipful Company but which people have campaigned of Masons, London EC4 2.