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Worshipful Company of Stationers

Categories: Liveries & Guilds

Worshipful Company of Stationers

Initially a Guild of Stationers - booksellers who copied, decorated and sold manuscript books. By about 1650 the printers had largely taken over from the manuscript boys. In 1557 they received a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Stationers

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Stationers' War Memorial

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has...

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Wynkyn de Worde

The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front ...

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Upholders' Hall

Upholders' Hall

Destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt. 'Upholder' is an archaic word for 'Upholsterer'.

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Hall of the Worshipful Company of Masons

Hall of the Worshipful Company of Masons

From The Masons: "Between 1483 and 1865 the Masons’ Company Halls (both the pre and post Great Fire) stood on the site of what is now 12 Mason’s Avenue. A certain amount is known about both buildin...

Building, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Basketmakers Company

Basketmakers Company

Established by an Order of the Court at Aldermen on 22 September 1569, a Royal Charter being granted in 1937. Today it supports the trade in this country and helps to foster links with the craft ac...

Group, Craft / Design, Liveries & Guilds, Politics & Administration

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Robert Lancaster

Robert Lancaster

Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers who died in WW1. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Second Lieutenant Robert Lancaster was born in 1880, the third son and the sixth ...

Person, Liveries & Guilds

War dead, WW1
1 memorial