Officers for 2026-2027
Master
Claire Fox
Upper Warden
Deborah Black
Other Warden
Clive Grimley
Court of Assistants
Special Assistants - Jousif Jabro
Assistants - Leslie Grout, Lawrence Day, Trevor Haynes, Christopher Godbold,
Steven Turner, Tony Sharp (& Clerk), Martin Thacker MBE JP,
Dmytro Tupchiienko, Ron Deal, Chrissie Swinerd, Mark Dennis
Honorary Assistant of comittee
Immediate Past Master - Royston Fox M 2025-2026
Honorary Assistants
Ian Tough JP M 2018-2019 ; Michael Wren M 2021-2022 ; James Vickers M 2022-2023 ;
Simon S Walsh M 2023-2024 ; Mary Spanner M 2024-2025
Honorary Chaplain
The Rev. Charlie Moore - Rector of St Mary Magdalen
Clerk
Tony Sharp
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Internal Governance
The company’s powers to vary its activities are in its associated ‘Regulations / Ordinances’ (under the Charter §10) which give it considerable flexibility: “and to Constitute Ordaine and make such and so many reasonable By laws Orders and Ordnances as to the said Master Wardens and Assistants or the said Comittee or the greater part of them being then and there present shall seem necessary and convenient for the well Ordering and Government of the said Company and the said By laws Ordnances or any of them to alter and Annull as they or the Maior part of them shall see requisite”.
The subscriptions levied by the company on its members are termed ‘fines’ (§10) and are in no wise regarded by the company as its being able to ‘fine’, in the disciplinary sense of to penalise, anybody.
The company’s powers to vary its activities are in its associated ‘Regulations / Ordinances’ (under the Charter §10) which give it considerable flexibility: “and to Constitute Ordaine and make such and so many reasonable By laws Orders and Ordnances as to the said Master Wardens and Assistants or the said Comittee or the greater part of them being then and there present shall seem necessary and convenient for the well Ordering and Government of the said Company and the said By laws Ordnances or any of them to alter and Annull as they or the Maior part of them shall see requisite”.
The subscriptions levied by the company on its members are termed ‘fines’ (§10) and are in no wise regarded by the company as its being able to ‘fine’, in the disciplinary sense of to penalise, anybody.
Master Tanners - Barrow, Hepburn and Gale?
The Tanners Company of Bermondsey
James Vickers Master Tanner 2022-2023 Reading the Lesson
Simon Walsh Upper Warden 2022-2023 being Sworn
