The Court of Aldermen were scheduled to meet to discuss applications for the Freedom of the City, and a report from the General Purposes Committee of Aldermen. They were also scheduled to give thanks to the Spital Sermon Preacher.

Freedom of the City Applications

The Chamberlain presented a list of 121 people to be admitted to the Freedom of the City.

Some of those scheduled to be admitted were:

• Stefanie Franziska Adami, a retired schoolteacher
• Paul Natale Allera, a haulage technical director
• Anthonie Andres Ash-Smit, a public affairs and policy manager
• Anne Jeanette Bailey, a chartered accountant and tax adviser
• Tjeerd Bakker, a horological conservator
• Ekatherini Barclay, a milliner
• Charles Canning Bathurst Norman, an investment director
• Caroline Wynne Beasley-Murray, a coroner
• Rachel Rosemany Montfort Bebb, an art gallery owner
• Kenneth Martin Blackburn, a chartered public finance accountant
• Georgina Mary Martha Bleeker, a shipbroker
• Ann Lavinia Blyth, a forensic waste consultant
• James Robert Samuel Blyth, a farmer and vintner
• Peter Niall Bradley, a hotel manager
• Isaac Nathaniel Bradpiece, a banker
• Alexander James Burns, a banker
• Gorvinder Singh Butter, a national account manager
• Olga Carington, a shipping operator
• Juan Francisco Carrizosa, an international consultant
• Yasmin Zulaikha Aman Rasul Carter-Esdale, an insurance consultant
• Andrew Victor Carwardine, a strategic consulting company C.E.O
• Emily Marguerite Charlesworth, a wine producer's head of marketing
• Claudine Church, a management consultant
• Miranda Grace Clifford, a banker
• John Maitland Coe, a wine and spirits merchant
• Paul Stephen Conboy, a building supplies company managing director
• Matthew Alexander Coward, a chartered tax adviser
• Ross Alexander Crawley, a solicitor
• Antony John Cross, a counsellor
• Bridie Marie Cunningham, a recruitment agency director
• Louisa Jane De Faye Perkins, a wine importer
• Jacob Michael Dennis Derrick, a chartered fire engineer
• Raul António Domingues Moura Da Silva, an operations manager
• Barbara Helen Drew, a wine merchant
• Harriet Caroline Fairbank, a craniosacral therapist
• Robert Euan James Findlay, a head cooper
• David Robert Gavin, a construction company managing director
• Dax Edward Goose, a facility and service management company director
• Muntazir Sayed Mohamed Hadadi, a head of pensions
• Alison Frances Harris, a retired counsellor
• Dr Sarah Marie Hart, a consultant anaesthetist
• Deborah Anne Harvey, a company secretary
• Susan Margaret Hawkins, a retired air crew member
• Stephen Mark Herbert, an architect
• Jane Margaret Horton, a flower school owner
• Andrew David Hoy, a pilot
• Lee Hudson, a building products company managing director
• The Hon. Edward Richard Iliffe, a brewing company director
• Sarah Evelyn Ingham Clark, a naturopathic nutritionist
• Fraser John Innes, a transport company director
• John Taylor Jenkins, a consultant surgeon
• Christine Janet Jones, a builders' merchants' company managing director
• Laurie Joseph Kenny, a road tunnel safety officer
• Nila Mumtaz Khan, an accountancy association executive director
• Albert Mouratovitch Khaoutiev, a capital markets leader
• Stephen Oliver Kielt, a farrier
• Erinn Rachelle King, an investment manager
• John Michael Lancaster, an integrated vehicle systems director
• Adam Francis Lane, a freight company account manager
• Candice Hiu Lam Lau, a leather craftswoman
• Nicholas Francis Leming, a head of listed real estate
• Daniel Marc Levene, an energy company director
• Gareth James Leverton, a cleaning company chief growth officer
• Fahad Ahmed Loon, a laundry and dry-cleaning company director
• John Stephen Lucy, a consulting company C.E.O
• Jocelyn Rosemary Lynch, a retired financial services company director
• Lady Iona Sina Mackworth-Young, an art historian
• Michael Matthew Mancini, a furniture company director
• Christopher Neil Martin, a city planner company director
• Steven John Martin, a tax adviser
• Ilirjan Mazrreku, a plumbing and heating engineer
• Lynsey Claire Metcalfe, an academic historian
• Andrew John Miller, a construction company sales director
• Alexander Kevin Murphy, a building services engineer
• Nis Christian Nissen, a game meat company managing director
• David Leslie O'Brien, a consultancy company director
• Olubusola Opeyemi Deborah Adejumoke Okenla, a startup community chief executive
• Glenn Joseph Paddison, a builders' merchant commercial director
• Jayesh Parmar, an electrotechnical sector organisation chief executive
• Andrew John Pitman, a retired optometrist
• Steven John Plummer, a plastering company director
• Gillian May Prager, a retired NHS director
• The Venerable Roger Martin Howell Preece, a charity chief executive
• Lee James Morris Pugh, a head of baking food innovation
• John Herbert Denis Kinross Purser, a retired material procurement executive
• Simon Thomas Rhind-Tutt, a market research company managing director
• Claire Louise Robson, a chartered secretary
• Graham David Rolleston, an air & ventilation hygiene consultant
• Arian Shahbazian, a property developer
• Antony John Sharkey, a building company managing director
• Mengting Shen, a chartered accountant
• Thomas Richard Joseph Short, an executive search company director
• Sergey Sidorov, an actuary
• Dr Anna Elizabeth Simmons, a historian
• Graham Neil Skinner, a street lighting worker
• Revd Christopher Matthew Smith, a clerk in holy orders
• Elizabeth Jane Stevenson, a nurse
• Roy Stoner, an optical industry association director
• Victoria Jane Streater, a yarn company director
• David Wing Yip Suen, a local government manager
• Susan Joy Sykes, a retired retail supervisor
• Timothy Richard James Sykes, a fintech company founder
• Christopher David Taylor Reed, an information technology consultant
• Stephen Richard Telling, a transport company director
• Edward Paul Turner, a marine insurance claims director
• Tania Estefania Udaondo Bernau, an architect
• Gemma Louise Underwood, a school administrator
• Louis Jacobus Van Der Walt, a senior business development manager
• Charlotte Vermedal, a product marketing manager
• Michelle Lorraine Vizard, a digital health management consultant
• James Christian Walters, a maritime consultancy director
• Claudia Katherine Louise West, an advertising business director
• Philip David Whitcomb, a solicitor
• Jonathan Wright Whitehead, a solicitor
• Dale Williams, a food company site director
• Nicholas Campbell Williams, a chartered surveyor
• Rhys Williams, a regional operations manager
• Martyn Hugh Wiltshire, an architect
• James Charles Wright, a logistics compliance company director
• Yan Xu, a banker
• Lt Col Matthew David Yates, a medical practitioner

General Purposes Committee of Aldermen Report

The Court of Aldermen were scheduled to consider recommendations from its General Purposes Committee on an application from the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers for a Supplemental Charter¹.

The Court was also scheduled to consider recommendations from the General Purposes Committee on a petition from the Company of Communicators to be constituted as a Livery Company of the City of London. The recommendation was that the petition be granted, subject to the following conditions:

• That the number of the Livery should not exceed 250
• That the fine for admission to the Livery should not be less than £400
• That no person shall be admitted to the Livery of the Company unless he or she first produces his or her copy of the freedom of the City of London.

It was recommended that the Company of Communicators be constituted a Livery Company of the City with the title “The Worshipful Company of Communicators”, that the formal grant be embodied in Letters Patent under the Mayoralty Seal and that the proposed Constitution and Ordinances be approved and enrolled among the records of the Court of Aldermen as the 113th Livery Company of the City.

Thanks to the Spital Sermon Preacher

The Court of Aldermen were scheduled to give thanks to the Spital Sermon Preacher, but this item was deferred to the next meeting.