Worshipful Company of Engineers

The Worshipful Company of Engineers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was founded and became a Livery Company in 1983 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 2004. The Company is for Chartered Engineers of EC(UK) Professional Institutions or Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[1] It works to promote and develop all aspects of the science, art, and practice of engineering.

The Engineers' Company ranks ninety-fourth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies. Its motto is Certare Ingenio, Latin for Use Skills to the Best of One's Abilities. Its Church is St Vedast-alias-Foster [2]

Masters

Since the formation of the Company in 1983

  • 1997 Dr J C Smith CBE FREng FRSE
  • 1998 Dr D S Mitchell CBE
  • 1999 R H Rooley FREng
  • 2000 Dr L J Weaver CBE
  • 2001 A G Jackson
  • 2002 Raymond J R Cousins
  • 2003 Sir David Davies CBE FRS FREng
  • 2004 Major General E G Willmott CB OBE
  • 2005 Dr Robert Hawley CBE FREng FRSE
  • 2006 Commander B D Gibson MBE
  • 2007 Rear Admiral David K Bawtree CB DL
  • 2008 Anthony D Roche FREng
  • 2009 F Christopher Price OBE FREng
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References
  1. Melling, John Kennedy (2003). Discovering London's Guilds and Liveries. Shire Publications. pp. 56–57.
  2. http://liverydatabase.liverycompanies.info/networks/566/index.html
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