Governance

The Company comprises Liverymen, Honorary Freeman, Freeman and Apprentices. Liverymen are the backbone of the company and are the people associated with the craft. In the 21st century the craft includes many of the advanced technologies that make our modern world work.

The Company is governed by the Court and this is chaired by the Master of the year. The Court comprises the Deputy Master, who is the immediate Past Master, the Senior and Junior Wardens (who are next in line to be Master), the Senior Past Master, other Past Masters, Assistants and Past Masters Emeritus. Past Masters Emeritus are those Past Masters who have chosen to retire from full participation in the Court. Assistants are those liverymen who have been elected by the Court with the expectation that they will become Master. The Court is limited to 23 people.
Stewards also attend the court but do not have voting rights. The Master, and Wardens each appoint a steward for their term in office. Stewards perform a hospitality role at official functions.

The day to day business of the Livery is managed by The Clerk.

The Livery also has an Honorary Chaplain - The Reverend Prebendary Jeremy Crossley, Rector of St Margaret Lothbury, an Honorary Solicitor - Roger Seaton and an Honorary Director of Music - Dr Richard Townend.

" If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. "
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist.
" A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. "
Edward Teller
" I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. "
Ken Jenkins
" If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate "
Henry J. Tillman
" Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. "
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." "
Isaac Asimov
" Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
Wernher Von Braun
" Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. "
Jean Rostand
" Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. "
Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
" The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. "
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964
" Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. "
Martin H. Fischer
" Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. "
Bertrand Russell
" DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. "
Kenneth Boulding