Agenda and minutes

Court of Aldermen - Tuesday, 10th September, 2013 12.30 pm

Venue: Court of Aldermen, Guildhall

Contact: Lorraine Brook
tel. no.: 020 7332 1409 Email: lorraine.brook@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Items

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Item

Question - That the minutes of the last Court are correctly recorded?

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Minutes:

Resolved – That the minutes of the Court of Aldermen held on 9^th July 2013 were correctly recorded.

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The Bridgemasters to make the prescribed declaration under the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868 for the due execution of the office

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Minutes:

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

The Bridgemasters, Mr Martin Howard and Mr Peter Bennett (City Surveyor), made and prescribed the declaration under the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 for the due execution of the office.

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Resolutions on Retirements, Congratulatory Resolutions, Memorials etc

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Minutes:

There were none.

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Mr Chamberlain's list of applicants for the Freedom of the City:-

Name	Occupation	Address	Company

Richard John Walker	a Financial Planner	Bradley Stoke, Bristol	Tinplate Workers Alias Wire Workers
Sarah Henstock	a Washroom Distribution Company Director	Carshalton, Sutton	Environmental Cleaners
Guy Pakenham	a Cleaning Company Director	Cranleigh, Surrey	Environmental Cleaners
Sarah Louise Treseder	a Yachting Association Chief Executive	Ocean Village, Southampton	Goldsmiths
John Stuart Francis	a Chartered Accountant	Groombridge, Sussex	Chartered Accountants
David Alexander Hammond	a Royal Air Force Officer	Lisburn, Northern Ireland	Air Pilots & Air Navigators
Marsha Frances Reed	a Registered Nurse, retired	Cranleigh, Surrey	Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers
David William Richards	a Chartered Accountant	Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey	Gunmakers
Gerard Joseph Heanue	a Printing Equipment Company Director	Englefield Green, Surrey	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
Alastair Scott Milne	a Product Development Consultancy Director	Crouch End, Haringey	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
Laurence Martin Kaye	a Solicitor	Radlett, Hertfordshire	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
James Alistair Greaves	an Architect	Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire	Carpenters
Barbara Joan Ellul	a Portfolio Adviser	Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire	Environmental Cleaners
Richard Martin Norman	a Cleaning Company Director	Walton on the Hill, Surrey	Environmental Cleaners
Peter Barre McVeigh	a Lighting Company Director	Batley, West Yorkshire	Lightmongers
Nigel Leonard Wheeler	a School Master, retired	East Peckham, Kent	Curriers
Edward Henry John Colthurst	an Accountant	Hammersmith and Fulham	Grocers
The Honourable Lord Stephen Errol Woolman	a Senator of the College of Justice	Edinburgh	Woolmen
Glyn Murray Kyle, MBE	a Charity Director	Herne Hill, Lambeth	Paviors
Jeremy Mark Bray	a Lloyd's Underwriting Agent	Handcross, Haywards Heath, Sussex	Fan Makers
Stephen Clive Isaacs	a Research Laboratory Associate Director	Godalming, Surrey	Paviors
Michael John Hammond	a Head of Research	Market Harborough, Leicestershire	Educators
Dan Anselm Rieser	an Economist	Piccadilly, Westminster	Fuellers
Peter James Richards	a Writer	Winchester, Hampshire	Vintners
Jonathan Goedhuis	a Wine Merchant	Holdenby, Northamptonshire	Vintners
Royston Amos	a Quantity Surveyor	Upper Basildon, Reading,

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Minutes:

Mr Chamberlain presented the names of one hundred and thirty-four 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	Occupation	Address	Company

Richard John Walker	a Financial Planner	Bradley Stoke, Bristol	Tinplate Workers Alias Wire Workers
Sarah Henstock	a Washroom Distribution Company Director	Carshalton, Sutton	Environmental Cleaners
Guy Pakenham	a Cleaning Company Director	Cranleigh, Surrey	Environmental Cleaners
Sarah Louise Treseder	a Yachting Association Chief Executive	Ocean Village, Southampton	Goldsmiths
John Stuart Francis	a Chartered Accountant	Groombridge, Sussex	Chartered Accountants
David Alexander Hammond	a Royal Air Force Officer	Lisburn, Northern Ireland	Air Pilots & Air Navigators
Marsha Frances Reed	a Registered Nurse, retired	Cranleigh, Surrey	Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers
David William Richards	a Chartered Accountant	Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey	Gunmakers
Gerard Joseph Heanue	a Printing Equipment Company Director	Englefield Green, Surrey	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
Alastair Scott Milne	a Product Development Consultancy Director	Crouch End, Haringey	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
Laurence Martin Kaye	a Solicitor	Radlett, Hertfordshire	Stationers & Newspaper Makers
James Alistair Greaves	an Architect	Chalfont St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire	Carpenters
Barbara Joan Ellul	a Portfolio Adviser	Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire	Environmental Cleaners
Richard Martin Norman	a Cleaning Company Director	Walton on the Hill, Surrey	Environmental Cleaners
Peter Barre McVeigh	a Lighting Company Director	Batley, West Yorkshire	Lightmongers
Nigel Leonard Wheeler	a School Master, retired	East Peckham, Kent	Curriers
Edward Henry John Colthurst	an Accountant	Hammersmith and Fulham	Grocers
The Honourable Lord Stephen Errol Woolman	a Senator of the College of Justice	Edinburgh	Woolmen
Glyn Murray Kyle, MBE	a Charity Director	Herne Hill, Lambeth	Paviors
Jeremy Mark Bray	a Lloyd's Underwriting Agent	Handcross, Haywards Heath, Sussex	Fan Makers
Stephen Clive Isaacs	a Research Laboratory Associate Director	Godalming,

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Application of the following to be admitted into the Freedom of the City by Patrimony in the Company named:-

Name Company

Ann Dockins Stranack Educators

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Minutes:

Application of the following to be admitted into the Freedom of the City by Patrimony in the Company named:-

Name Company

Ann Dockins Stranack Educators

Read and agreed to.

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Petitions-

Petition by The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor, Alderman Roger Gifford

Of the Guild of Public Relations Practitioners petitioning to proceed from Guild to Company without Livery status.

Petition to the Privy Council for a Royal Charter - Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators

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Minutes:

(i) By The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor, Alderman Roger Gifford

Of the Guild of Public Relations Practitioners petitioning to proceed from Guild to Company without Livery status.

Read and referred to the General Purposes Committee for examination and report, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Comptroller & City Solicitor and the Director (Public Relations), being instructed to report thereon.

(ii) To the Privy Council for a Royal Charter

Of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators requesting a change of status and a change of title.

Resolved – That the Court of Aldermen endorse the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators’ petition to the Privy Council for a Royal Charter.

(iii) Company of Educators

A recommendation of the General Purposes Committee recommending that the Company of Educators be constituted as a Livery Company of the City of London and that the prayer of the Petition be complied with, on the following conditions:

• That the number of the Livery should not exceed 300;

• That the fine for admission to the Livery should be not less than £65; and

• That no person shall be admitted to the Livery of the Company unless he or she first produces his or her copy of the freedom of the City of London.

That as the proposed Constitution and Ordinances conform to the law and custom of the City, the Company of Educators be constituted a Livery Company of the City with the title “The Worshipful Company of Educators,” that the formal grant be embodied in Letters Patent under the Mayoralty Seal and that the proposed Constitution and Ordinances be approved and enrolled among the records of the Court of Aldermen as the 109th Livery Company of the City.

Resolved – That the recommendation be agreed to.

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Letters -

(a) The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to lay before the Court a letter from Alderman Robert Hall offering to surrender his office as Alderman for the Ward of Farringdon Within.

(b) The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor to lay before the Court a letter from Alderman Andrew Parmley offering to surrender his office as Alderman for the Ward of Vintry.

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Minutes:

The Town Clerk lay before the Court a letter from Alderman Robert Hall offering to surrender his Office of Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon Within and a letter from Alderman Dr Andrew Parmley offering to surrender his Office of Alderman of the Ward of Vintry.

RECEIVED.

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