Worshipful Company of Stationers
Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a...
Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a...
Frank Nathaniel Steiner was Chairman of the City of London Planning & Communications Committee in 1973. 1973-1984 Clerk to the Company of Gardeners. From The Brotherhood: The Secret World of...
Tallow chandlers make candles and other products from animal fat. the Company originated as a religious fraternity. 1456 granted a coat of arms. 1462 became a Livery Company.
In 1476 the Tallow Chandlers bought what was probably a merchant’s house on Dowgate Hill and used that as their Hall. The Hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt 1671-3. Damaged ...
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Lieutenant Cyril Alfred Trustcott was born on 16 July 1883 in Paddington, the thi...
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Lieutenant Francis George Truscott M.C., was born on 12 August 1894 in Redhill, S...
The Guild of Turners began sometime between 1295 and 1310. King James I granted the first Royal Charter in 1604. In the 15th and 16th centuries almost all the turners in London lived in one ver...
The guild was first chartered in 1568. For Tyler, read Tiler not Taylor, and the connection makes sense. The 1666 Great Fire of London initially appeared to be good for the Company due to a Royal ...
Destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt. 'Upholder' is an archaic word for 'Upholsterer'.
Managed the London Pavilion theatre from 1886 to 1890. Robert Edwin Villiers was born on 18 April 1830 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex (now Greater London)) the son of Issac Villiers (c.1789-1863)) and ...