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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

8 years

It’s true, good things do come in small packages (or Tweets). Follow me to learn more

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

10 months

This is what it’s all about…

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@CityandLivery

3 years

On this day 74 years ago HM The Queen (then HRH Princess Elizabeth) was admitted into the Freedom of the Drapers’ Company by right of patrimony. HM The Queen is now a Court Assistant of the Company.

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@CityandLivery

10 months

The City of London is the only place in His Majesty’s Kingdom where troops may not enter without the Lord Mayor’s permission, and when granted they must be met and escorted by the City Marshal.

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@CityandLivery

4 years

Did you know that two Livery Halls feature paintings of HM in the robe, riband and collar of the Order of the Garter. But in which halls are these paintings to be found?

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Farewell then to Mercer, Fishmonger, Ironmonger, Musician, Coach Maker, Master Mariner, Air Pilot, Engineer, Environmental Cleaner and Marketor - HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was a prolific and much respected Liveryman

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

10 months

Well that’s a wrap until next year.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Retweet if you are going to watch the @lordmayors_show next Saturday when @VincentKeaveny will become the 693rd @citylordmayor since 1189AD.

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@CityandLivery

4 years

At a youthful 100 years of age, @captaintommoore becomes “Our Youngest Freeman"

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

This year HM The Queen will turn 95 and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh will reach 100. I’ll be exploring the City’s relationship with the Monarchy and the Royal Family in a new lecture on HM’s 95th birthday:

The City of London's relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

This lecture explores the City's long, complex and fascinating relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Breaking news: My network of well placed City spies and informants tell me that the number of Livery Companies that do not admit women has reduced to a grand total of ZERO. Further details in due course.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

10 months

30 years of excellence. Thank you @dominic_reid

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@CityandLivery

8 years

Only in the City of London. Our Lord Mayor has a military bodyguard granted by the Monarch: the HAC's Company of Pikemen and Musketeers

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Every Freeman of the City of London knows that the wisest apprentices are taught by those that have a great master.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Without a doubt the only example I have seen of a coat of arms on a beehive.

Lord Mayor, City of London

@citylordmayor

3 years

Wanted to share this photo of our very happy bees on top of Mansion House, helping to pollenate the Square Mile on this beautiful day

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Did you know that George III didn’t like lawyers very much, and when he was presented with the Inns of Court Regiment he described them as ‘The Devil’s Own’ - the soubriquet stuck!

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

1 year

Sorry to learn there will soon be one fewer Livery Halls in the City of London as the Master Mariners move out of HQS Wellington and explore options for a new home. Best wishes to the Wellington Trust in conducting vital repairs that will likely require a period in dry dock.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

It is my belief that every Liveryman has a duty to encourage and support greater diversity and inclusion within and among all Livery Companies. No exceptions, no excuses, no delays.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

I’m thinking of moving my first public lecture on the Treasures of the Livery Halls to a web-based live broadcast event.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

I have just received a summons to attend the Lord Chief Justice’s Court. Fortunately I’m neither plaintiff or litigant, but will be among the visitors for the Ceremony of the Quit Rents. Off to brush up on the topic with my handy copy of Keepers of the Kingdom by @AlastairBruce_

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@CityandLivery

2 years

Not often that one gets to see the badge of the Court of Exchequer these days (it was dissolved by an Order in Council in 1880). This is the Royal Warrant appointing @VincentKeaveny and @LizGreenWCFK as Sheriffs in the City of London.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

8 years

To my newest follower @manahelthabet in true City of London Livery Company style ‘I bid you a hearty welcome’

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Just three weeks to go until the @lordmayors_show … @dominic_reid @citylordmayor @visitthecity

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

My next lecture is on 21st April (HM’s birthday) and explores the City’s relationship with the Monarch and the Royal Family. Further details and booking here:

The City of London's relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

This lecture explores the City's long, complex and fascinating relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Now that Sir is a coat of arms!

Dr Paul A Fox FSA

@DrPaulFoxFSA

3 years

Garter King of Arms, in what may be his final official duty, reads the list of honours bestowed on Prince Philip at the conclusion of his funeral service.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

#CityFact No city in the UK has a greater concentration of corporate heraldry than the City of London

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Who knew there is such an office in the City as that of Footman to the Sheriff (two Sheriffs hence two Footmen)

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

Fellow Freemen and Liverymen, did you know that the Livery Companies disburse over £67m to charitable causes every year. That’s more than many of the big household name charities, and it’s thanks to the generosity of you and your forebears. Share the news! #charity #livery

City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

What have the City of London’s Livery Companies ever done for others? Find out in my latest blog article on the charitable work of the livery:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Why HM The Queen is an Honorary Freeman of the City, and a Court Assistant, but isn’t a Liveryman… just one of the City quirks I explore in my latest blog:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

Commodore Toby Williamson, Clerk (CEO) to the @FishmongersCo talks about Friday’s events at the hall and on London Bridge, particularly the heroism of all the staff involved:

'A game of pinball bomb with added knives'

The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall describes how his staff fought back during the London Bridge attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

The Arms of the several City of London Livery Companies and Companies without Livery that are extant in the Square Mile in the 21st century.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

A very Merry Christmas to all my followers whether they be Apprentices, Journeymen, Freemen, Yeomen, Liverymen, Common Councilmen, Aldermen, Sheriffs, My Lord Mayor or just interested in the endlessly fascinating Great and Famous City of London

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Happy Birthday to Citizen & Draper, HM Queen Elizabeth the Second, Captain General of the HAC.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

The Square Mile's 110 Livery Companies and two Companies without Livery represent the greatest concentration of corporate arms in the UK:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

If ever a Livery Company needed a friendly ear, a warm brew, a reminder they are not alone and possibly a corporate hug… it’s the heroic and selfless Fishmongers.

The Fishmongers' Company

@FishmongersCo

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We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support over 2019 and wish you all a peaceful 2020

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Some wonder if the ancient Livery Companies are still relevant in the 21st century. Ladies and Gentlemen, on a day when temperatures in the City at set to reach 40oC I give you the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers! @Fan_Makers

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

The City of London’s Chamberlain’s Court will conduct the first virtual admission into the Freedom of the City of London when @captaintommoore becomes a Freeman next week. Which means I shall have to update The City of London Freeman’s Guide again!

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

The Royal Family's many links with the City and the Livery Companies will be highlighted in my forthcoming lecture. Details and enrolment here:

The City of London's relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

This lecture explores the City's long, complex and fascinating relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Just been reading all about the Bank of England picket, which protected the Bank of England from 1780 until 1973. Formed after the Gordon Riots when @citylordmayor failed to read the riot act, the picket was initially charged with securing the Bank and the Mansion House.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Did you know that Freemen of the City of London are entitled to be vaccinated using a gold tipped needle?

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

Absolutely delighted to learn that Late Lord Mayor, Charles Bowman, has been made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, not a moment too soon. Hurrah!

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

I have but one wish for the Livery in 2020: That the number of Livery Companies ‘yet to admit women’ reduces from 1 to 0. Let’s all encourage that one remaining Livery Company to recognise that the random allocation of chromosomes is no basis for an admissions policy.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Happy Birthday to His Majesty The King - Freeman, Liveryman, Past Master or Royal Patron of no fewer than 14 Livery Companies.

LightCavalryHAC

@hac_light

2 years

The LCHAC would like to wish His Majesty a very happy 74th birthday. God Save the King.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Why does the City of London have such a unique and long-standing connection with the Monarch and the Royal Family? Find out in my next lecture:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

As a mark of respect to HRH The Duke or Edinburgh, and to Her Majesty, I have postponed my lecture on the City’s relationship with the Monarchy from 21st April (HM’s birthday) until 5th May:

The City of London's relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

This lecture explores the City's long, complex and fascinating relationship with the Monarch and Royal Family

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Attention all Freemen: Today would have been the date of the annual @SheepDriveLDN . Bookmark this weekend for next year’s Sheep Drive - tickets sell out early!

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Did you know the Drapers’ Company presented the Queen with a brooch many years ago? No, not Queen Elizabeth II (who also has a brooch from the Drapers’ Company), but the late Queen Maud of Norway… in 1905. The brooch is still worn by the current Queen of Norway

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@CityandLivery

3 years

Tomorrow evening’s lecture is on The City of London and Livery Company links with the Monarch and the Royal Family. Further details and enrolment here:

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@CityandLivery

4 years

If ever you are in the City and find yourself in need of confirming the length of a foot or yard then hasten ye to Guildhall where you will find this handy standard measure

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@CityandLivery

2 years

Which Livery Company owns this Loving Cup?

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

Just three weeks to go until this year’s @lordmayors_show , the longest, largest, oldest and most spectacular unrehearsed street pageant in the world, and its free to attend.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

#CityFact The lantern carried during the Ceremony of the Keys at @TowerOfLondon was a gift presented in 1919 by @HACRegiment

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

Did you know that until his retirement in 2011, HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was the longest serving Master of @trinityhouse_uk - here painted in the unique uniform of that ancient office.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

A peak at the Letters Patent granting arms to the Drapers’ Company. This is the earliest know grant of arms to a corporate body (1439). The arms are still used by the Company and are worn by the Queen on a jewel presented to her when admitted to the Freedom of the Company aged 21

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

7 years

I say! I’ve just received an invitation to dine at the Mansion House for which the dress code is ‘business attire’. Ghastly, simply ghastly!

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

One can only trust that the Master of the @BrewersCompany recognises these lads have put in a shift like no other today.

Rachael Lloyd

@IamRachaelLloyd

2 years

What a job these young men did. Their parents must be bursting with pride 🖤 #queensfuneral #GreatBritain

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@CityandLivery

11 months

There are (two) new Sheriffs in Town, read all about the origins; history; election, and modern role of the City’s Sheriffs in my latest blog article: @Londonist @Londonhist @livinglondonhis @visitlondon @cityoflondon @CityAM @visitthecity

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

6 years

What have the City of London’s Livery Companies ever done for others? Find out in my latest blog article on the charitable work of the livery:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

1 year

His Majesty the King is a Freeman, Liveryman, Past Master, Perpetual Master or Patron of the following City of London Livery Companies (more than any other member of the Royal Family) #Coronation

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Just reading a thoroughly well researched paper on Women in the Livery and High Civic Office by @StaryErica . Pleased to read how the status of women in the City has advanced so far in my lifetime; yet still significant discriminatory barriers to overcome - not least in heraldry.

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@CityandLivery

3 years

Just 6 weeks to go until the @lordmayors_show 2021.

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7 years

Arise Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and Past Master of @it_livery Sir Ken Olisa OBE, knighted by HM The Queen for services to business and philanthropy. Hurrah and huzzah! @KenOlisa_LLofGL

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

It seems I’m now on the slippery slope to 6,000 followers. Surely there cannot be that many people interested in the City of London, its Livery Companies and the Freedom of both?

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Friends, followers, Freemen. Tomorrow’s Accession Council at St James’s Palace will be broadcast on the TV, the first time this meeting has ever been shown to the public. The Lord Mayor of London is a member of the Accession Council.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

If you’re off to see Dick Whittington in Panto this Christmas, here’s a handy guide for hecklers of all ages:

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

5 years

For many centuries this Livery Company has little in the way of tangible wealth and only a boggy wood it had been left by a deceased member. Today that boggy wood is Hammersmith

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Attention all Freemen: Tomorrow would have been the date of the annual @SheepDriveLDN , although London Bridge is closed for surface repairs anyway. Bookmark this weekend for next year’s Sheep Drive.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

In the highest tradition and with the most advanced technology… Honorary Colonel Tom Moore is admitted into the Freedom of the City of London - the first virtual admission ceremony in the City’s history @captaintommoore @citylordmayor @murraycraig61

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

4 years

Who remembers the old style golden framed Copy of Freedom that the Chamberlain’s Court used to employ? I actually prefer this to the current version.

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Did you know that no uniform has ever been produced for the Lord Mayor in his/her capacity as Admiral of the Port of London but a design was created based on that of the Master of Trinity House (HRH The Duke of Edinburgh here as Master)

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

It’s St George’s Day today and here he is in @ArmourersHall - the patron saint of the company.

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@CityandLivery

1 year

Congratulation to Alderwoman Dame Susan Langley on her promotion to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). Alderwoman Langley was previously an Officer (OBE) of the same order, and is one of the Court of Aldermen’s candidates for Sheriff in the City of London

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

2 years

Did you know the City of London’s Mourning Sword (a plain matt black sword without ornamentation) is carried at funerals and on the anniversary of the Great Fire of London.

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@CityandLivery

5 years

Seen in the @ApothecariesLDN yesterday evening, HM wearing the robe, sash and collar of the Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

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City and Livery

@CityandLivery

3 years

I don’t usually post my holiday snaps on Twitter, but on this day I will make an exception. 70 years ago today a Citizen & Draper of London went up to bed a Princess, by the next morning she came down a Queen… and what a Citizen & Draper she has been! #GSTQ #PlatinumJubilee

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@CityandLivery

4 years

Stained glass panels on display in the hall of the Founders’ Company. These panels are backlit as they are subterranean.

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@CityandLivery

5 years

Today is St Crispin’s Day. Events in France on this day in 1415 led to the City of London receiving the greatest thank you gift in English history. I, along with 600 odd Lord Mayors and 1 King of England have been privileged to hold it.

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@CityandLivery

5 years

A very Happy Birthday to Citizen & Draper, HM Queen Elizabeth II. Note the brooch featuring the Arms of the Drapers’ Company, a gift from the Company on her admission by Patrimony at the age of 21.

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@CityandLivery

5 years

Someone once told me that heraldry has no place in the modern business world. That was four years ago… since then I’ve been collecting heraldic business cards.

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@CityandLivery

10 months

The Clapham Omnibus?

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@CityandLivery

3 years

Why does the City of London have such a unique and long-standing connection with the Monarch and the Royal Family? Find out in my next lecture:

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@CityandLivery

3 years

Congratulations to late Lord Mayor Sir William Russell on his knighthood, richly deserved for extensive charity leadership over many years and work in FInTech, although strange that the official announcement makes no mention of his two year mayoralty.

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@CityandLivery

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#CityFact The Swordbearer is one the the three Esquires of the Mansion House, his hat is known as the Muscovy Hat and features a pocket for the key to the safe which holds the City seal; keep that under your hat!

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@CityandLivery

4 years

Did you know that despite its Tudor appearance the Ironmongers’ Hall dates from the early 1920s and is made largely of concrete.

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@CityandLivery

2 years

Did you know that during the 18th and 19th century certain lucky Admirals were presented with a gilded sword when admitted into the Honorary Freedom of the City of London? Note the arms of the City of London depicted in the pommel.

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2 years

Thank you to all the Livery Companies who have alerted me to His Majesty’s membership of those companies during the past few days. I always appreciate and welcome such insights.

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3 years

By popular request my recent lecture on the City’s relationship with the Monarch and the Royal Family will be repeated on Monday 14 June. Full details and enrolment here:

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@CityandLivery

6 years

Just got told off by Mrs @CityandLivery for taking 45 minutes to tell my 7 year old son’s bedtime story. His choice of story “Daddy, how exactly does someone become Lord Mayor of London?”… not my fault he asked the only person in the house who can give a 45 minute answer!

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7 years

Arise Alderman Sir Andrew Parmley, late Lord Mayor of London and one of the nicest fellows I have had the pleasure of meeting, a much deserved knighthood from HM

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5 years

Are you thinking of running for Lord Mayor of London or other elected office in the City? If so, this handy diagram (updated this morning) provides a simplified and summarised overview of the process.

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4 years

Rather pleased with this gift from Mrs @CityandLivery . I’m off to the framing shop later today.

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10 months

My son watched this and asked why the LM’s coach is preceded by 4 Watermen and a Bargemaster. Before I tell him, do any of my followers know the answer?

City and Livery

@CityandLivery

10 months

This is what it’s all about…

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3 years

This must be the Firefighters’ Company’s bid to be the top Livery Co’ in the City

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6 years

Just eight weeks to go until the annual @lordmayors_show

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2 years

Following tomorrow’s Accession Council, Garter King of Arms will read the Proclamation from St James’s Palace before proceeding on to the City of London

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@CityandLivery

2 years

At midday today Clarenceux King of Arms, Timothy Duke Esq, will read the Proclamation from the steps of the Royal Exchange in the City of London. It remains to be seen if Clarenceux will be challenged by the City Marshal, and greeted by the Lord Mayor, before entering the City.

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Good morning one and all. Several persons advised me that I had ‘missed a bit’ when cleaning up my diagram of elections and appointments in the City of London. I’ve since updated the diagram to include the bits I missed. No doubt there are others, but here’s the latest.

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@CityandLivery

2 years

Chocolates in favour of Sack for the Loving Cup! Whatever next?

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4 years

For the firs time since 1862 the Lord Mayor of London will serve two, contiguous, terms of office. Find out what it takes to become the City’s first citizen in my forthcoming Livery Lockdown Lecture:

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