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Pictures courtesy of Gerald Sharp Photography


The Company’s Banquet at the Mansion House on Monday 18 March 2013


Our Company originates from a dining club of a small group of solictors over a century ago. The founding members held the inaugral dinner at Mansion House in 1909; and the Annual Banquet has been held there every year, with a few exceptions since the Company was granted livery in 1944.


This year we were honoured to be welcomed again to the 1758 Palladian styled Mansion House, by our Master, Martin Roberts. Summoned to the beautifully columned Egyptian Hall, the main reception room, named after its Egyptian arrangement of columns, we awaited the arrival of Alderman Sir David Lewis, the Mayor’s representative, the Wardens, and the principal guests.


Amongst those principal guests we were honoured to have the Masters of the Cutlers’, Butchers’, Builders’ Merchants’ and Woolmen’s Companies. This year’s Banquet also saw the Company’s new Cadet Unit, the South East London 71st AFC Detachment of the Irish Rifles, providing a splendid Guard of Honour for the first time.


“Lex Libertatis Origo” “Freedom’s foundation is the law”. Our Company’s motto was represented by the Chief Executive of the Law Society, the


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