Agenda and minutes

Resolved: - That the minutes of the Court of Aldermen held on 9^th May 2017 were correctly recorded.

The minutes of the Court of Common Council were laid upon the table of the Court.

Resolved Unanimously: -

That this Court has learned with great sorrow of the unexpected and sudden death of Sir Paul Rupert Judge, Alderman for the Ward of Tower since 2007 and Sheriff between 2013 and 2014.

Sir Paul enjoyed a high-flying career in the food industry, becoming Cadbury’s group planning director in 1984 at a young age and a member of the group executive committee. In 1985 he led a substantial management buyout – the biggest of its kind at that time - of the company’s UK, Irish and French food businesses to form the successful Premier Brands.  

In addition to his business, industry and professional interests, Sir Paul was a staunch advocate for education. He established a charitable foundation and financed the creation of a new business school at Cambridge University where he studied at Trinity College - now called the Cambridge Judge Business School. He chaired the school’s Advisory board for 12 years and throughout this time the school rose rapidly in the rankings, with the Cambridge MBA programme now ranked among the top in the world.  He continued to remain closely engaged with, and enthused by the education agenda and routinely travelled to China through his work with the 88 initiative, which he co-founded, to provide opportunities for Chinese students and business professionals already in the UK and for entrepreneurs in China wishing to come to the UK.

Sir Paul was appointed to a number of government roles and he also enjoyed a political career in the 1990s, advising on several policy issues including competitiveness, deregulation and privatisation.  As a result of his extensive work in both politics and public service, Sir Paul made a Knight Batchelor in 1996 and, in 2013 he was appointed a Brother of the Order of St John by Her Majesty

Mr Chamberlain presented the names of one hundred and fifty-five persons to be made free of this City, and it is Ordered that they be admitted into the Freedom of this City accordingly, as follows: -

Name                                             Company

Patricia Louise Fitzsimons             Water Conservators

Name                                          Company

Patricia Louise Fitzsimons          Water Conservators

Read and agreed to.

Name                                             Company

Oliver Peter Anthony Trace            Grocers

Name                                                  Company

Oliver Peter Anthony Trace                Grocers

Read and agreed to.

A precept summoning that a Wardmote be held before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in the Ward of Tower in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 of the Act of Common Council of 14^th July 1960 governing the election of Aldermen, Common Councilmen and Ward Beadles of the City of London (as substituted by Section 4(2) of an Act of Common Council of 4th June 2001) for the election of an able and sufficient Citizen and Freeman of the City of London, was signed by the Lord Mayor.

GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE OF ALDERMEN

(i) Recommendation of the Privy Council Office to allow the Honourable Company of Master Mariners to set up a Registration Authority which will register, establish conditions for registration and provide oversight to those suitably qualified and experienced to merit the award of “Chartered Master Mariner”.

Resolved:– That, in light of the recommendation of the Privy Council Office to allow the Honourable Company of Master Mariners to set up a Registration Authority which will register, establish conditions for registration and provide oversight to those suitably qualified and experienced to merit the award of “Chartered Master Mariner”, the request be approved.

The Town Clerk lay before the Court a letter from Alderman Sir David Wootton offering to surrender his Office of Alderman of the Ward of Langbourn.

 RECEIVED.