Masters of the Company

1677 – 2010

  • 1677 William Bussey
  • 1678 James Masters
  • 1679 James Page
  • 1680 Stephen Phillips
  • 1681 Charles Neville
  • 1682 Edward Hooper
  • 1683 John Davies
  • 1684 John Parsons
  • 1685 Robert Johnson
  • 1686 William Fowler
  • 1687 Benjamin Thody
  • 1688 John Bradford, William Fowler
  • 1689 William Perrott
  • 1690 John Hunt
  • 1691 Jacob Smith
  • 1692 Richard Taylor
  • 1693 William Rose
  • 1694 John Darker, Junr.
  • 1695 Nicholas Spalden
  • 1696 Richard Atkinson, Benjamin Thody
  • 1697 William Dancer
  • 1698 Thomas Kirkham
  • 1699 James Trumble
  • 1700 Isaac Territt
  • 1701 Jonathan Bentley
  • 1702 Jonathan Bentley
  • 1703 Edward Salisbury
  • 1704 Norwich Salisbury
  • 1705 Thomas Walker
  • 1706 Josiah Linnet, Jonathan Bentley
  • 1707 Samuel Browne
  • 1708 John Parsons
  • 1709 John Parsons
  • 1710 Richard Cheshire
  • 1711 Joseph Parsons
  • 1712 Joseph Shefford
  • 1713 Isaac Territt
  • 1714 William King
  • 1715 John Edmonds
  • 1716 Joseph Bernard
  • 1717 Joseph Jacob
  • 1718 William Beaumont
  • 1719 Francis Markull
  • 1720 John King
  • 1721 Richard Hipwell
  • 1722 Henry Glover
  • 1723 Thomas Burgiss
  • 1724 James Price
  • 1725 Charles Haman
  • 1726 Joseph Bernard, Thomas Burgiss
  • 1727 Robert Grimes
  • 1728 Thomas Smithsend
  • 1729 John Jatt
  • 1730 Richard White
  • 1731 William Neaton
  • 1732 Benjamin Nolton
  • 1733 Thomas Sells
  • 1734 William Thorp
  • 1735 Edward Salisbury
  • 1736 Thomas Chitter
  • 1737 Joseph Barnard
  • 1738 John Howard
  • 1739 John Coleman
  • 1740 Charles Fairchild
  • 1741 Simon Parsons, David Lewis
  • 1742 John Leech
  • 1743 John Bentley
  • 1744 George Walker
  • 1745 Robert Miles
  • 1746 John Halls
  • 1747 John Cross
  • 1748 Edward Harlee
  • 1749 Joseph Berry
  • 1750 William Trigg
  • 1751 Daniel Cogdell
  • 1752 William Chapman, John Leech
  • 1753 William Robins
  • 1754 Edward Story
  • 1755 Stephen Hunt
  • 1756 Richard Hodges
  • 1757 John Rawlins
  • 1758 John Stanley
  • 1759 Benjamin Lancaster
  • 1760 John Virgoe
  • 1761 William Goodenough
  • 1762 Richard Payne
  • 1763 George Austin
  • 1764 William Piddington
  • 1765 Shadrach Venden
  • 1766 John Westley
  • 1767 John Wright
  • 1768 Samuel Butler
  • 1769 John Orme
  • 1770 Richard Spencer
  • 1771 James Cope
  • 1772 Justus Olney
  • 1773 Henry Sturdy
  • 1774 Thomas Maidman
  • 1775 Richard Whiteshead
  • 1776 Thomas Parkinson
  • 1777 John Smith
  • 1778 John Wellings
  • 1779 Joseph Garth
  • 1780 William Reeves
  • 1781 John Foster
  • 1782 Thomas Nevett
  • 1783 John Barnard
  • 1784 Henry Nash
  • 1785 John Hatchett
  • 1786 Thomas Collingridge
  • 1787 John Holyoak
  • 1788 William Leader
  • 1789 James Marriott
  • 1790 Joseph Bradshaw
  • 1791 John Foster
  • 1792 William Tesse Campbell
  • 1793 Lionel Lukin
  • 1794 Arthur Windus
  • 1795 Edward Berry
  • 1796 George Myers
  • 1797 George Wilson
  • 1798 David Stoddart, Thomas Collingridge
  • 1799 George Wellings
  • 1800 John Lycet
  • 1801 William Burch
  • 1802 William Burch
  • 1803 Geroge Eades
  • 1804 Murdoch Mackenzie
  • 1805 John Sargeaunt
  • 1806 John Randall
  • 1807 Osborn Erswell
  • 1808 Samuel May
  • 1809 Edward Houlditch
  • 1810 Edward William Windus
  • 1811 Samuel Jemmett
  • 1812 Thomas Bromfield
  • 1813 Anthony Harvey
  • 1814 William Exall
  • 1815 John Thomas Rigge
  • 1816 Charles Bonner, Thomas Titterton
  • 1817 Thomas Titterton
  • 1818 Osborn Erswell, Jnr.
  • 1819 Charles Baxter
  • 1820 Booth Hancock
  • 1821 Samuel Sproston
  • 1822 Luke Hopkinson
  • 1823 Thomas Windus
  • 1824 Edward William Austin
  • 1825 James Scoles
  • 1826 Benjamin Godfrey Windus
  • 1827 Charles Lucas Birch
  • 1828 John Winfield
  • 1829 Thomas Glover
  • 1830 James Bennett
  • 1831 Francis Lamb
  • 1832 John Strickland Rigge
  • 1833 Benjamin Waller (the Elder)
  • 1834 Lewis Leslie
  • 1835 Allen Blizzard
  • 1836 Richard Turrill
  • 1837 Henry Powell
  • 1838 Joseph John Scoles
  • 1839 John Chancellor
  • 1840 Thomas Chancellor
  • 1841 Benjamin Waller, Jnr.
  • 1842 James Scoles
  • 1843 James Bennet, Jnr.
  • 1844 George Chancellor
  • 1845 Solomon Willoughby
  • 1846 Thomas Peters
  • 1847 John Cook
  • 1848 George Crockford
  • 1849 Henry Black
  • 1850 Lewis James Leslie
  • 1851 William Allen Lee
  • 1852 Thomas Nicholls White
  • 1853 Thomas Rowly
  • 1854 Thomas Pearce
  • 1855 Thomas Mason
  • 1856 Jehoshophat York
  • 1857 Joseph Glover
  • 1858 John Winpenny Peters
  • 1859 Frederick William Messer
  • 1860 William Winpenny Peters
  • 1861 Thomas William Callow
  • 1862 Joseph Peters
  • 1863 Col. James Peters
  • 1864 Thomas How
  • 1865 William Thomas Thorn
  • 1866 James Heslop Powell
  • 1867 James Joseph Blake
  • 1868 Charles James Bennett
  • 1869 Samuel Glover
  • 1870 James Robinson
  • 1871 John Francis Woodall
  • 1872 Herbert Mountford Holmes
  • 1873 John Holland
  • 1874 George Norgate Hooper
  • 1875 William Hooper
  • 1876 Charles Greenwood
  • 1877 Charles Saunderson
  • 1878 Frederic Chancellor
  • 1879 Charles Dyer Field
  • 1880 Frederick James Blake
  • 1881 Frederick Thorn
  • 1882 William Coham Turner
  • 1883 George Athelstane Thrupp
  • 1884 Charles Harris Woodall
  • 1885 Henry Rogers
  • 1886 Robert Alford
  • 1887 Thomas Packwood Alder
  • 1888 Charles Thos. Bartlett
  • 1889 Col. William Bristow
  • 1890 Alfred Aurelius Clark
  • 1891 Edmund Boulnois, M.P.
  • 1892 Sir John Braddick Monckton
  • 1893 Sir John Braddick Monckton
  • 1894 William Beriah
  • 1895 Sir Walter Wilkin (Lord Mayor)
  • 1896 Col.John William Lee
  • 1897 The Hon. Mr Justice Gainsford Bruce
  • 1898 George Edwards
  • 1899 Robert Downs
  • 1900 Francis Joseph Stowe
  • 1901 Albert Chancellor JP
  • 1902 Arthur William Elam
  • 1903 Charles Holmes
  • 1904 Sir Alfred Seal Haslam, MP
  • 1905 Charles Mallord William Turner
  • 1906 Frederic Wykeham Chancellor, MA, FRIBA
  • 1907 Robert Greenwood Alford
  • 1908 Prof. Ernest William White, CBE MB, MRCP
  • 1909 Lt.-Col. Arthur Felton Mulliner, VD, TD, JP
  • 1910 Arthur Strachan Winterbotham
  • 1911 Frank Lindsay Sutton
  • 1912 Wiliam Palmer Wilton, MC, TD
  • 1913 Sir Joseph Lawrence Bt.
  • 1914 Charles James Bennett
  • 1915 Thomas Henry Gardiner
  • 1916 John Philipson
  • 1917 The Rev. Honyel Gough Rosedale, D.D.
  • 1918 Spencer Bernard Kendall
  • 1919 James Fuller Eberle, OBE
  • 1920 Charles Roland Field
  • 1921 Henry Percival Monckton
  • 1922 James Leslie Grove Powell
  • 1923 Francis Temple Stowe
  • 1924 Francis Danford Thomas
  • 1925 Clifford Blackburn Edgar
  • 1926 Arthur Hungerford Pollen
  • 1927 Sir Walter, Schröder KBE
  • 1928 William James McCormack
  • 1929 Sir Edward Manville
  • 1930 William Lawton-Goodman
  • 1931 Sydney Norris
  • 1932 HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught, KG
  • 1933 Sir John Davenport Siddeley, CBE (Created Baron Kenilworth 1937)
  • 1934 Sir Herbert Austin, KBE (Created Baron Austin 1936)
  • 1935 John Christoper Mitchell, JP
  • 1936 The Rt. Hon. Lord Iliffe, GBE
  • 1937 Augustus Edward Hughes, JP, FRIBA
  • 1938 Peter Croall, JP
  • 1939 Algernon Lionel Collins
  • 1940 Vincent Alford, MA
  • 1941 Capt. Douglas Harris
  • 1942 Charles Gordon Dickson, Sheriff and Deputy
  • 1943 Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE
  • 1944 Sir William Maulsbrey Letts,KBE
  • 1945 James Donald Field MA, LL.B.(Cantab)
  • 1946 Charles Wilfrid Mallord Turner
  • 1947 Archibald Hair
  • 1948 Arthur Conway Edgar, MC, MA
  • 1949 William Macdonald Park
  • 1950 Frederic Stanley Bennett
  • 1951 Major Richard Melsome Woolley, CBE
  • 1952 Edward Philip Connolly
  • 1953 Roland Edmund Dangerfield
  • 1954 Wilfrid John Connolly
  • 1955 Group Captain Frederick Charles Victor Laws. CB, CBE
  • 1956 Col. The Rt. Hon. Lord Kenilworth CBE, TD, DL
  • 1957 Ralph James Dalziel Smith
  • 1958 Ralph James Dalziel Smith
  • 1959 The Hon. Denis (Gomer) Berry, TD
  • 1960 Sir (William) Reginald Verdon Smith
  • 1961 Col. Graham Alexander Norris, OBE, DL
  • 1962 Peter Shaw Croall
  • 1963 Lt-Col Richard Travis Harris
  • 1964 Alderman Sir James Miller, GBE, DL, LL.D. (Lord Mayor)
  • 1965 Patrick Norman Dickson
  • 1966 Hubert Granville Starley, CBE
  • 1967 Henry John Robert Stent
  • 1967 Col. George Douglas Travis Harris, OBE
  • 1969 The Rt Hon Lord Kenilworth
  • 1970 Sir George Dowty DL, DSc (Hon)
  • 1971 George McGregor-Craig
  • 1972 Cmdr Kenneth Anderson Sellar, DSO, DSC
  • 1973 Paul Kerr Jennens
  • 1974 Sir Theo Constantine, CBE, DL (Created Baron Constantine of Stanmore in 1981)
  • 1975 Charles W. Ward
  • 1976 Maurice Armstrong Smith, DFC
  • 1977 Bernard Boxall, CBE, B.Sc.
  • 1978 Eric Latham Beverley, CBE
  • 1979 Peter Michael Hall James
  • 1980 John Alan Williams, TD
  • 1981 John Stirling Freeland Hogg
  • 1982 Major William Hallam Wharfe, RM
  • 1983 Lindsay Clive Hunting
  • 1984 Timothy John Connolly, OBE
  • 1985 Richard Dennis Casserley Dallimore
  • 1986 David Joseph Connolly
  • 1987 David Manuel Shalit, Deputy
  • 1988 Brian Leslie Maddock Brew, TD
  • 1989 George Anthony Hepworth
  • 1990 Gerald Boxall, CBE
  • 1991 Denis James Burrell, CBE
  • 1992 Andrew John Duncan Ferguson
  • 1993 Patrick O’Ferrall, OBE, CC
  • 1994 Alan Roy Maidens
  • 1995 Peter Greville Sparks
  • 1996 James Smillie
  • 1997 Robert Croall
  • 1998 Admiral Sir Derek Reffell, KCB
  • 1999 Philip John Christopher Ashfield
  • 2000 The Hon. Roy Constantine
  • 2001 David William Almond
  • 2002 Hon. Air Commodore Malcolm Victor Gauntlett
  • 2003 Group Captain Alan Marcus Wills CVO, OBE
  • 2004 Michael James Limb OBE
  • 2005 Roger John Smith
  • 2006 Jeffrey D Rose, CBE
  • 2007 Andrew Love
  • 2008 Michael Davis
  • 2009 Dr Stephen K Hammerton
  • 2010 Vice Admiral Tim Laurence CB MVO ADC(p)