Masters
Those who have been Master of the Company include the following:
- 1631 David Ramsay
- 1636 Elias Allen
- 1645, 1652 Edward East
- 1703 Thomas Tompion
- 1708 Daniel Quare
- 1817 John Roger Arnold
- 1821, 1823, 1825, 1827, 1847 Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy
- 1855, 1862 Charles Frodsham
- 1902, 1914 William Henry Mahoney Christie
- 1922, 1931 Sir Frank Watson Dyson
- 1946 Lord Iliffe of Yattendon
- 1949, 1954 Sir Harold Spencer Jones
- 1959 Viscount Falmouth
- 1960 Lord Harris
- 1969 Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley
- 1974 Sir Frank Chalton Francis
- 1976 Sir Hugh Wontner
- 1980 George Daniels
- 1986 Viscount Falmouth
- 1989 Lord Murton of Lindisfarne
- 2000 Alexander Boksenberg
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Elias Allen
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Thomas Tompion
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John Arnold
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Charles Frodsham
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Famous quotes containing the word masters:
“Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
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“Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)