Everything about The Worshipful Company Of Haberdashers totally explained
The
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is one of the
Livery Companies of the
City of London. The organisation, which developed from the
Mercers' Company, another Livery Company connected with clothing and
haberdashery, received a
Royal Charter in 1448. The Company, which was originally responsible for the regulation cloth merchants, began to lose control due to the increase of the population of London, its jurisdiction. Thus, the Company now exists as an educational and charitable institution only, instead of retaining links to its original trade.
As an educational institution, the Haberdashers' company has been active in founding eight schools. It created a boys' school at
Hoxton, which then split into schools at
Hatcham in south London and
Hampstead in north London; the Hampstead school moved in
1961 to become the
Haberdashers' Aske's School,
Elstree. The Hatcham school now admits girls as well as boys; a separate girls' school was founded at
Acton but has now moved to be close to the Elstree school. Other Haberdashers' schools are situated elsewhere in the
U.K., for example
Adams' Grammar School in
Newport, Shropshire. Being a principally Christian organisation, the Haberdashers present copies of the
King James Bible to joiners of their schools.
The Company ranks eighth in the
order of precedence of Livery Companies; it's therefore considered one of the "Great Twelve City Livery Companies". The Company's motto is
Serve and Obey. Its Hall was for many centuries in the
Bassishaw ward of the City but since 2002 the Company has moved into a new Hall in
Farringdon Without.
List of Haberdashers Schools
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