Agenda and minutes

Court of Aldermen - Tuesday, 15th July, 2025 12.30 pm

Venue: Committee Rooms, 2nd Floor, West Wing, Guildhall

Contact: Gemma Stokley Email: gemma.stokley@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Items

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Item

Question - That the Minutes of the last Court are correctly recorded? PDF 272 KB

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Minutes:

Resolved: - That the minutes of the Court of Aldermen meeting held on 13^th May 2025 were correctly recorded.

[The minutes of the Court of Common Council were on the table].

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Resolutions on retirements, Congratulatory Resolutions, Memorials etc.

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Resolution of Congratulations:

Resolved: - That sincere congratulations of this Court be offered to Alderman Prem Goyal, CBE, on his recent appointment by His Majesty the King as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for public service.

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The Comptroller and City Solicitor to report the result of the Wardmote held on Wednesday,18th June 2025 for the election of an Alderman for the Ward of Dowgate

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Minutes:

The Comptroller & City Solicitor reported the result of the Wardmote held on Wednesday, 18^th June 2025 for the Election of an Alderman for the Ward of Dowgate.

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The Comptroller and City Solicitor to report the result of the Wardmote held on Thursday,19th June 2025 for the election of an Alderman for the Ward of Vintry

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Minutes:

The Comptroller & City Solicitor reported the result of the Wardmote held on Thursday, 19^th June 2025 for the Election of an Alderman for the Ward of Vintry.

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Applications for the Freedom of the City PDF 286 KB

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Minutes:

The Chamberlain presented the names of the two hundred and thirty seven persons to be made free of this City, and it is Ordered that they may be admitted into the Freedom of the City accordingly, as follows: -

Name	Occupation	Address	Company
Rinat Abdrasilov	a Management Consultant	Dartford, Kent	International Bankers

Roslyn Jane Adshead-Grant	an Executive Coaching Consultancy Director	Essex	Glass Sellers

Jorge Mario Agudelo Guzmán	a Jeweller	Southwark, London	Goldsmiths

Damir Ahmovic	a Sustainability & Energy Consultancy Company President	Ealing, London	Fuellers

Karen Ainley	a Marketing & Training Agency Chief Executive	Colchester, Essex	Communicators

Anthony Allcock, OBE	an Animal Welfare Organisation Chief Executive	Cheltenham, Gloucestershire	Masons

Sebastian Gerald Heath Annable	a Solicitor	High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire	Innholders

Maurice Archer	a Construction Company Group Strategic Director	Colchester, Essex	Chartered Surveyors

Remi Aderemi Adenike Awolola	a Project Engineering Consultant	Kent	Engineers

Matthew Vincent Bagatta	a Chartered Surveying Company Director	Dartford, Kent	Constructors

Charlotte Bainbridge	a Chartered Accountant	Islington, London	Stationers & Newspaper Makers

Simon Jonathan Ball	a Film Director	Lambeth, London	Communicators

Susan Mary Ball	a Solicitor, retired	Hackney, London	Tax Advisers

John Frank Bampkin	a Builders Merchant Company Chief Executive	Guernsey, Channel Islands	Builders Merchants

Margaret Dewdney Barnard	an Occupational Therapist, retired	Sevenoaks, Kent	Founders

Satyajeet Kishor Barot	a Business Development Director	Leicester, Leicestershire	International Bankers

Verity Mary Hazel Barton	a Communications Consultant	Southwark, London	Communicators

Verena Elisabeth Bek	an Actuary	Wandsworth, London	Actuaries

David John Berry	a Builders' Merchant Company Managing Director	Leyland, Lancashire	Builders Merchants

Miles Gareth Berry	an Academic	Godalming, Surrey	Information Technologists

Stephen William Bett	a Farmer	Norfolk	Farmers

Annalisa Winge Bicknell	a Property Development Company Director	Eastbourne, East Sussex	Mercers

Stewart John Black	a Chartered Quantity Surveyor	Bromley, London	Masons

Simon Alexander Bodman	an Insurance Project Manager	Hampshire	Master Mariners

Vanessa Anne Bradford	a Banker	Brent, London	Woolmen

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Applications of the following to be recorded as a Freeman of the City, and in the Company Named:

Name: Company:

Briony Rudder Dyers

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Application of the following to be recorded as a Freeman of the City in the Company named: -

Name:	Company:
Briony Rudder	Dyers

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Report: General Purposes Committee of Aldermen

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Minutes:

There was no report.

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Letters

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The Town Clerk lay before the Court a letter of surrender of office from Alderman Sir Charles Bowman, offering to surrender his Office as Alderman of the Ward of Lime Street.

The Town Clerk lay before the Court a letter of surrender of office from Alderman Vincent Keavney CBE, offering to surrender his Office as Alderman of Farringdon Within.

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