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Community and Children's Services Dinner
March 2011, The Livery Hall, Guildhall, London

  

Board of Governers of the City of London School for Girls
Dinner
October 2010, The Livery Hall, Guildhall, London

  

Luncheon to mark the presentation of a Shrieval Chain of Office and Badge

September 2010, Saddlers' Hall, London

     

The Shrieval Chain and Badge of Office

The Armorial Bearings of Mr Sheriff-Elect Richard Sermon designed by William Hunt, Windsor Herald, reflect his interests and major influences on his life.

The Arms are described as ‘Azure a Griffin passant holding in the dexter foreclaws a Cross Crosslet fitchy Or on a Chief dancetty of three points Gules fimbriated Or a Rose Argent barbed and seeded proper between two Wheels Or.’ The Griffin is an element of other Sermon family Arms, the wheels are drawn from the Arms of the Wheelwrights’ Company of which he is a Past Master and the Yorkshire rose reflects his wife Rosemary’s origins.

The Crest is described as ‘Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Azure Upon a Pulpit Gules a closed Book Azure edged Or statant thereon a Secretary Bird proper.’ These aspects are drawn partly from the Arms of Chartered Secretaries’ and Administrators’ Company of which he is also a Past Master with the pulpit representing a pun linked to the motto. The motto FACENDUM NON PRAEDICANDUM, ‘Practise, don’t Preach’, a play on his family name which encapsulates his attitude to life.

A wheel provides the base for his Shrieval Badge design with his Armorial Bearings at the hub with spokes which incorporate hand painted enamel shields depicting the Arms of Nottingham High School where he was educated, The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, of which he is a Fellow, The Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights, his Mother Company and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of which he is a Past Master and The City and Guilds of London Institute of which he is an Honorary Fellow and Trustee. A chamfered key stone, the symbol of the Youth Club movement recalling his long involvement with London Youth is engraved with The Ward of Cheap Club insignia and dovetails between the main badge and the Arms of the City of London. Each shoulder piece to the chain has a scale carriage wheel with an enameled Yorkshire Rose.

The design for the badge was realised and made in the workshops of the London goldsmith Grant Macdonald.

Committee of Managers of West Ham Park Dinner, Salters' Hall, London