MASTER DRAPER: JUNIOR WARDEN WILLIAM CHARNLEY ON TWITTER

Monday 10 January 2011

JUNIOR WARDEN WILLIAM CHARNLEY ON TWITTER

William wearing the robes and badge of Junior Warden.

I have been meaning to mention that the newest member of the Company's Court, Junior Warden William Charnley has a Twitter account.

I am pretty sure that this is a Company first but if any reader of this blog knows better I would like to hear.

twitter.com/WC7 is quite a specialist Twitter site and deals with William's adventures with fine wine and food. I am a follower but do not think I can add a great deal to the erudite debate of chateaux and vintages that seems to comprise most of its content.

But Capitalist in City AM is certainly impressed. On 19 October he wrote. 'Wine lovers usually pay good money for expert advice on which vintages to pair with different foods, so Mayer Brown corporate lawyer William Charnley deserves a mention for one of the most informative Twitter feeds The Capitalist has seen in a while. Charnley, tweeting as @WC7, is a fount of knowledge on vino, updating the feed regularly with suggestions for fellow wine lovers.'

Speculation is rife on who will be next Court member to go electronic.

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WELCOME TO MASTER DRAPER BLOG

When I began Master Draper blog I thought it was the first time that any master of a London Livery Company has ever tried to blog his/her year.

However I later discovered, as is so often the case with the livery movement, that others had got there before me. Venetia Howes last year's Master Marketor had her own blog. Shortly afterwards I found out that Julian Keevil, last year's Master Tobacco Pipe Maker and Tobacco Blender, had a most successful blog that was started by a previous master. Both their successors, Jim Surguy of the Marketors and Fiona Adler of The Tobacco Piper Makers have continued what now seems to be a tradition. I have also found out about a number of others but they are restricted to members of the Company with access to the relevant website so are not really part of the blogosphere.

The Drapers' Company is one of the older livery companies and because of the importance of the finished wool cloth trade to London, and the wider English economy, five hundred years ago we are ranked as the third company in seniority.

Today there are over a hundred livery companies in London focussed on an extrordinarily wide range of trade related and charitable activities.

Our website http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/ gives a good overview of who we are and what we do across a wide range of activities.

My intention is to produce a blog that will describe a Company year where ancient ceremonial, promoting a wide range of charitable activity and maintaining a great organisation to continue its proud traditions into the future will blend together to create an interesting insight into one of London's great institutions.

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Monday 10 January 2011

JUNIOR WARDEN WILLIAM CHARNLEY ON TWITTER

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