Officers for 2024-2025
Master
Royston Fox
Upper Warden
Mark McAllister
Other Warden
Clare Fox
Court of Assistants
Special Assistants - Deborah Black
Assistants - Dr Ian Wingfield, Leslie Grout, Lawrence Day, Dr Richard Fynes,
Trevor Haynes, Christopher Godbold,Steven Turner Tony Sharp (& Clerk)
Honorary Assistant of comittee NOW
Immediate Past Master - Mary Spanner M 2024-2025
Honorary Assistants
Ian Tough JP M 2018-2019 ; Michael Wren M 2021-2022 ;
James Vickers M 2022-2023 ; Simon S Walsh M 2023-2024
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
