The City of London Corporation (until 2006 the Corporation of London) is the municipal governing body of the City of London (the "Square Mile").
The City of London Corporation is formally named the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, thus including the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council and the Freemen and Livery of the City.
Read more about City Of London Corporation: History, Local Authority Role, The High Officers and Other Officials, Elections, The Court of Aldermen, The Court of Common Council, The Lord Mayor and The Sheriffs, Ceremonies and Traditions, Conservation Areas and Green Spaces, Education, Criticism
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“What life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turned into a den
Of savage men:
And where ‘s a city from all vice so free,
But may be termed the worst of all the three?”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“I don’t care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard. And when I said, “Why throw a stone into Carlyle’s yard?” she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
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“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)