104. Master’s Valentines Dinner

It is a Company tradition for the Master to organize a lunch or dinner to say thank you to the Wardens, Bailiff, Clerk, Beadle, Past Masters, Members of the Court and their partners for all their support during his or her year. The Master also “sponsors” the partners at this event.

This year we organized (with great assistance from our Clerk, Ralph Riley) a Valentines Dinner on Board HQS Wellington. Although only seven months into our year, Fiona and I thought it was a good idea to use Valentines Day and link it to the installation of seven Consorts as Freemen of the Company (see blog no 103). It was a fun, colourful and very sociable event. The Cook and the Butler decorated the Livery Hall beautifully with large red heart-shaped balloons, candelabra’s, colourful tablecloths and roses. The excellent dinner had a Valentines Day theme and speeches were thankfully short!

A great evening and thanks to everyone who helped organize it.

Photographs show Fiona and I before the event started, the beautifully decorated Livery Hall, table place settings, Father of the Company Roy Harris with his wife Sonya, Past Master Roger Hewitt and his wife Rosemary, and Past Master Barry Dennis and his wife Jan.