Past Masters
The office of Master is the Guild’s highest elected position, conferred and installed annually. The Master represents the Guild at official functions and chairs Court meetings.
At first the Society of Young Freemen, the chief officer of the organisation bore the title of Chairman.
As the Society matured into the Guild of Young Freemen, and in keeping with the customs of the City of London’s Guilds and Livery Companies, this title was replaced with Master.
The table below records, in chronological order, all those who have served in this capacity, whose stewardship has shaped the Guild’s history and character since:
- 1976 – 1977: June Rodgers
- 1977 – 1978: William Hunt
- 1978 – 1979: Penny Lewis (later known as Penny Harrison)
- 1980 – 1981: Richard Ratner
- 1981 – 1982: Catherine Gay (née Wilson)
- 1982 – 1983: John Hill
- 1983 – 1984: Claire Cross
- 1984 – 1985: Ken Craig
- 1985 – 1986: Sally Anne Hill
- 1986 – 1987: Gwilym Morgan
- 1987 – 1988: David Foster
- 1988 – 1989: Jonathan Gollow
- 1989 – 1990: Howard Pearson
- 1990 – 1991: Heather Hall (née Marshall)
- 1991 – 1992: Peter Tompkins
- 1992 – 1993: Ian Clark
- 1993 – 1994: Malcolm Johnston
- 1994 – 1995: Stephen Plumb
- 1995 – 1996: David McGurk
- 1996 – 1997: Piers Llewelyn Jones
- 1997 – 1998: Michael Cooper OBE
- 1998 – 1999: Vicki Welch (née Hill)
- 1999 – 2000: Fiona Donovan
- 2000 – 2001: Ray Catt, CC
- 2001 – 2002: Clare James, CC (née Cue)
- 2002 – 2003: Michael Snow
- 2003 – 2004: Nigel Hall
- 2004 – 2005: Nigel James
- 2005 – 2006: Jason McCreanne
- 2006 – 2007: Robert Scriven
- 2007 – 2008: Toby Locke
- 2008 – 2009: Michael Wadood
- 2009 – 2010: Georgina Hajdu
- 2010 – 2011: Victoria Lloyd
- 2011 – 2012: Govind Ratnam
- 2012 – 2013: David Double
- 2013 – 2016: Laurence Nicolas
- 2016 – 2017: James St John Davies (né Bromiley-Davies)
- 2017 – 2018: Omar Asfar
- 2018 – 2019: Rafe Henry Clutton
- 2019 – 2020: Anjola Adeniyi
- 2020 – 2022: Louise Starling
- 2022 – 2023: Rhys Jones
- 2023 – 2024: Samuel Chadd
- 2024 – 2025: Grace Abba
