Governance and peoplePast Masters

A record of service

The roll shows periods of continuity as well as gaps shaped by political upheaval, war and the changing fortunes of the Company. Repeated names show occasions when a Master served more than one term.

The current Master and Wardens are shown on their dedicated page.

2000–present

1. 2024–25Nicholas Carr

2. 2023–24Lorne Mackillop

3. 2022–23Christopher Searle

4. 2021–22Christopher Porter

5. 2020–21Jonathan Driver

6. 2019–20Kenny MacKay

7. 2018–19Martin Riley

8. 2017–18Bryan Burrough

9. 2016–17Richard Watling

10. 2015–16Douglas Morton

11. 2014–15Allan Cheesman

12. 2013–14David Raines

13. 2012–13Brian Morrison

14. 2011–12Terence Barr

15. 2010–11David Sills

16. 2009–10Simon Leschallas

17. 2008–09Charles Maxwell

18. 2007–08Derek Plant

19. 2006–07Keith Garrard

20. 2005–06David Grant

21. 2004–05Christopher Hayman

22. 2003–04Nigel Churton

23. 2002–03Robert Hobson

24. 2001–02Gerald Milsom

25. 2000–01Robert Howell

1900–1999

1. 1999–2000Richard Nicholson

2. 1998–99Ian Coombs

3. 1997–98Christopher Mitchell

4. 1996–97Anthony Charlton Edwards

5. 1995–96Dr Peter Hallgarten

6. 1994–95Michael Druitt

7. 1993–94S. W. Morrison

8. 1992–93Nigel Causton Strofton

9. 1991–92Vincent Larvan

10. 1990–91John Michael Broadbent

11. 1989–90Alexander James MacDonald-Buchanan

12. 1988–89Norman Cary Burrough CBE

13. 1987–88Alan Burrough CBE

14. 1986–87Frank Charles Minoprio

15. 1985–86Thomas Norman Ritchie TD

16. 1984–85David Robert Lamdin

17. 1983–84Patrick Robert Henry Lynch

18. 1982–83Michael Boileau Henderson

19. 1981–82William Ian Baverstock Brooks

20. 1980–81Walter Sichel

21. 1979–80George Potts

22. 1978–79Peter Hasslacher

23. 1977–78Geoffrey Ernest Nobes

24. 1976–77Peter Bartholomew Reynier MC

25. 1975–76Colonel Geoffrey Vardon Churton MBE MC TD DL

26. 1974–75John Henry William Dunbar

27. 1973–74Giuseppe Umberto Salvi OBE

28. 1972–73Alan Seymour Lamboll JP

29. 1971–72William Emile Rouyer Guillet

30. 1970–71Randolph Wemyss Dunsire

31. 1969–70Arthur Philip Casey Lyons

32. 1968–69The Hon. Frederick Francis George Hennessy MBE

33. 1967–68John Percival Finney

34. 1966–67Major Guy Lionel Greville Harry TD

35. 1965–66Brigadier Alexander Douglas McKechnie DSO OBE TD

36. 1964–65Sir William Steward

37. 1963–64Albert Rouyer Guillet

38. 1962–63Victor Leslie Seyd

39. 1961–62Harold Stanley Redding

40. 1960–61Thomas Kingsley Collett

41. 1959–60Frederick Armine Cockburn

42. 1958–59Alcide William Henry Le Forestier

43. 1957–58Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Malcolm Scott

44. 1956–57Edward Herbert Clark

45. 1955–56Ronald Hughes

46. 1954–55William Charlton Edwards

47. 1953–54Sydney Frederick John Fells

48. 1952–53Major R. MacDonald-Buchanan CVO MBE MC DL

49. 1951–52Alexander John Buckley Rutherford CVO CBE

50. 1950–51Alexander John Buckley Rutherford CVO CBE

51. 1949–50Sir Reginald Spence

52. 1948–49Major Victor H. Seyd

53. 1947–48Major E. P. Nicholls DSO TD

54. 1946–47E. Price Hallowes

55. 1945–46Charles E. J. Cary-Elwes

56. 1944–45Lieutenant Colonel Sir George A. E. Hussey JP

57. 1943–44A. F. A. Imbert-Terry MBE

58. 1942–43R. William Byass

59. 1941–42John A. Dewar

60. 1940–41John A. Dewar

61. 1939–40John A. Dewar

62. 1938–39John A. Dewar

63. 1937–38Sidney A. Newton

64. 1936–37Major R. W. Cooper OBE MC JP

65. 1935–36Brigadier-General Charles S. Davidson CB

66. 1934–35Reginald Hunt

67. 1933–34Charles Edwards JP

68. 1932–33Captain Reginald Corfield

69. 1931–32Thomas George Vickery, Clerk 1898–1931

70. 1930–31E. Price Hallowes

71. 1929–30Harry J. Newman JP

72. 1928–29F. W. Imbert-Terry

73. 1927–28Arthur W. Folks

74. 1926–27John Joseph Hunt JP

75. 1925–26George Haslett

76. 1924–25Thomas P. Dorman

77. 1923–24Charles E. J. Cary-Elwes

78. 1922–23Major E. P. Nicholls DSO TD

79. 1921–22Lieutenant Colonel Sir George A. E. Hussey JP

80. 1920–21D. Malcolm Scott

81. 1919–20Harry J. Newman

82. 1918–19A. F. A. Imbert-Terry MBE

83. 1917–18John Marks

84. 1917James Vallentin

85. 1916A. J. Norris

86. 1915–16D. Malcolm Scott

87. 1914–15D. Malcolm Scott

88. 1913–14Robert Cooper

89. 1912–13F. W. Imbert-Terry

90. 1911–12B. M. Parker

91. 1910–11Colonel W. Nicholls VD

92. 1909–10Harry J. Newman

93. 1908–09R. E. Cunningham

94. 1907–08W. A. Carden

95. 1906–07Grimble Vallentin

96. 1905–06D. Malcolm Scott

97. 1904–05A. J. Norris

98. 1903–04F. Brooks Page

99. 1902–03C. H. Shoppee

100. 1901–02E. A. Baylis, Clerk 1882–1898

101. 1900–01W. G. F. Whittingstall

1800–1899

1. 1898Robert Cooper

2. 1897John Fleuret

3. 1896Thomas Courtenay

4. 1895Harry Newman

5. 1894Watson Osmond

6. 1893Grimble Vallentin

7. 1892Charles Gordon

8. 1891Frederick Imbert-Terry

9. 1890Frederick Capron

10. 1889Charles Fox

11. 1888Benjamin Parker

12. 1887Thomas Fox

13. 1886Charles Fox

14. 1885Edward Bowley

15. 1884Walter Goldsmith

16. 1883Grimble Vallentin

17. 1882Edward Vickers

18. 1881John Meek

19. 1880William Emery

20. 1879James Vallentin

21. 1878James Story

22. 1877Richard Wilson

23. 1876F. Seager Hunt

24. 1875John Henry Gent

25. 1874Thomas Boord

26. 1873John Burnett

27. 1872Thomas Fox

28. 1871Edward Beckwith

29. 1870George Orme

30. 1869James Vallentin

31. 1868Charles Gordon

32. 1867James Hunt

33. 1866John A. T. Smyth

34. 1865Christopher Wilson

35. 1864William Foster White

36. 1863William Nicholson

37. 1862William Gray Jackson

38. 1861John Nicholson

39. 1860Joseph Boord

40. 1859Frederick Capron

41. 1858Duncan Menzies

42. 1857Edward Vickers

43. 1856John A. F. Bennett

44. 1855Charles Curtis

45. 1854Thomas Fox

46. 1853William Goldsmith

47. 1852John Vickers

48. 1851George Smith

49. 1850William Nicholson

50. 1849Joseph Claypole

51. 1848James Scott Smith

52. 1847John Johnson, Lord Mayor of London in 1845

53. 1846James Lys Seager

54. 1845William Jackson

55. 1844John Nicholson

56. 1843J. A. T. Smyth

57. 1842Samuel Burn

58. 1841W. S. Browning

59. 1840Noah Slee

60. 1839John Vickers

61. 1838William Evans

62. 1837Ealand Adler

63. 1836James Goldie

64. 1835Joseph Vickers

65. 1834Samuel Richards

66. 1833William Knight

67. 1832John Roberts

68. 1831John Chapple

69. 1830John Bowerbank

70. 1829Edward Bowerbank

71. 1828Andrew Mackenzie

72. 1827George Watson

73. 1826Thomas Atkinson

74. 1825William Fowler Jones

75. 1824John Hughes

76. 1823Francis Worthington

77. 1822Marmaduke Langdale

78. 1821Francis Turnstall

79. 1820Thomas Davis

80. 1819James Langdale

81. 1818James Chapple

82. 1817Henry Weymouth

83. 1816James Drage

84. 1815Samuel Liptrap

85. 1814Laurence Shirley

86. 1813George Scholey

87. 1812George Scholey

88. 1811William Knight

89. 1810Alexander Gordon

90. 1809Joseph Skinner

91. 1808Russell Skinner

92. 1807John Bockett

93. 1806William Sayer

94. 1805Valentine Cooke

95. 1804John Reid

96. 1803John Liptrap

97. 1802Joseph Benwell

98. 1801Robert Rodgers

99. 1800John Hughes

1700–1799

1. 1799Mark Hodgson

2. 1798William Fowler Jones

3. 1797William Fowler Jones

4. 1796Marmaduke Langdale

5. 1795Thomas Langdale

6. 1794Richard Hopkins

7. 1793John Wollaston

8. 1792George Acton

9. 1791Thomas Chance

10. 1790Richard Smart

11. 1789Marmaduke Langdale

12. 1788Samuel Liptrap

13. 1787Thomas Sayer

14. 1786George Hodgson

15. 1785John Woodham

16. 1784Anthony Facer Kemp

17. 1783Christopher Woodham

18. 1782John Rex

19. 1781Robert Territt

20. 1780Joseph Skinner

21. 1779John Guy

22. 1778Richard Belson

23. 1777John Cooke

24. 1776William Brackstone

25. 1775Cornelius Van Mildert

26. 1774Joseph Hales

27. 1773Groves Wheeler

28. 1772Thomas Baker

29. 1771John Jones

30. 1770Thomas Winspear

31. 1769John Ewart

32. 1768Wilkshear West

33. 1767Robert Walsham

34. 1766Isaac Kemp

35. 1765Edmond Woods

36. 1764William Rogers

37. 1763Mark Bell

38. 1762Francis Magnus

39. 1761Vincent Legatt

40. 1760William Jellicoe

41. 1759John Bindley

42. 1758Thomas Roddy

43. 1757John Shewell

44. 1756Simon Fuller Wilkes

45. 1755Calvert Bann

46. 1754Richard Blunt

47. 1753George Jenyns

48. 1752William Cornish

49. 1751Richard Benson

50. 1750John Lloyd

51. 1749Lodowick Mansfield

52. 1748John Turnpenny

53. 1747William Farman

54. 1746Henry Saunders

55. 1745Jonathan Hall

56. 1744Daniel Terrett

57. 1743John Barnett

58. 1742Thomas Cooke

59. 1741Richard Grove

60. 1740Richard Lawrence

61. 1739Thomas Tomes

62. 1738Edmund Bathurst

63. 1737Richard Farrington

64. 1736Thomas Maynard

65. 1735George Baker

66. 1734Robert Barnard

67. 1733Sampson Fenn

68. 1732Valentine Brewis

69. 1731John Wilkes

70. 1730Stonyer Plaisted

71. 1729George Wingfield

72. 1728Sisson Roberts

73. 1727James Clarke

74. 1726William Gardner

75. 1725Edward Bulpen

76. 1724Percival Hobson

77. 1723William Jarman

78. 1722Jonathan Fuller

79. 1721Thomas Browne

80. 1720Francis Stonnard

81. 1719William Estwicke

82. 1718Anthony Holbeche

83. 1717Israel Wilkes

84. 1716Jonathan Boulter

85. 1715Joseph Wight

86. 1714William Diston

87. 1708Samuel Palmer

88. 1705Thomas Wickham

89. 1704Samuel Barker

90. 1703Samuel Robinson

91. 1702John Hawkins

92. 1701John Hyett

93. 1700Joseph How

1600–1699

1. 1699John East

2. 1698Thomas Mackley

3. 1697Thomas Plaisted

4. 1696William Jerman

5. 1695Thomas Henning

6. 1694William Barnes

7. 1693Edward Roberts

8. 1683John Vyner

9. 1682John Elwick

10. 1681John Heath

11. 1680Daniel Wight

12. 1679Thomas Edwards

13. 1678George Clark

14. 1677James Woods

15. 1676Joseph Harrison

16. 1675Gervase Seaton

17. 1674Thomas Rawlinson

18. 1670Robert Taylor

19. 1669Gervase Rosser

20. 1668Thomas Whittle

21. 1667Robert Terrey

22. 1666Robert Terrey

23. 1665Francis Heath

24. 1664Francis Heath

25. 1663Ralph Triplett

26. 1638Sir Thomas Cademan