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Worshipful Company of Stationers

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

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 Royal Charter of Incorporation.

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Wynkyn de Worde

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...

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David Robson

David Robson

Master of the Vintners' Company in 2006.

Person, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Cutlers' Hall

Cutlers' Hall

The first recorded Hall was on Ironmonger Lane close to the current Mercers' Hall.  By the early 1400s they were in a building in Cloak Lane. Just before the Great Fire of 1666 the hall was rebuilt...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Thomas Bentley Westacott

Thomas Bentley Westacott

Deputy Chairman of the St Pancras Vestry General Purposes Committee in the late 1800s. The birth of Thomas Bentley Westacott was registered in the 4th quarter of 1839 in the South Molton Registrat...

Person, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

3 memorials