MASTER DRAPER: DR PETER SCOTT JOINS LIVERY SCHOOLS LINK

Thursday, 10 March 2011

DR PETER SCOTT JOINS LIVERY SCHOOLS LINK

Dr Peter Scott

Livery Schools Link is a voluntary organisation that aims to promote support for schools in the Greater London area by Livery Companies of the City of London, helping to prepare young people for the world of work. For more details go to www.liveryschoolslink.co.uk/

I am pleased that Liveryman Dr Peter Scott has agreed to be the Drapers' representative with this organisation. Peter was the very successful Headmaster of Bancroft's School between 1996 and 2006, covering much of the time when I was Chairman of Governors at the school. He has a huge wealth of experience and since retiring from Bancrofts he has been involved in a number of educational initiatives. I am certain that he will be able to make a substantial contribution to the work of the Livery Schools Link.

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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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Thursday, 10 March 2011

DR PETER SCOTT JOINS LIVERY SCHOOLS LINK

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