List of organisations with a British royal charter
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List of organisations with a British royal charter is an incomplete list of organisations based both on in and over the United Kingdom and throughout the world, in chronological order, that have received a royal charter
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...

 from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.
See also List organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter, which is an alphabetical list of organisations based in the UK.


System is modelled on the earliest modern French system.

Table

Day and month Year Name Notes Date Sealed Reference
1231 University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

1248 University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

1272 Saddlers Company
28-May 1284 Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the oldest college of the University, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely...

10-Mar 1326 Merchant Taylors Company
01-Mar 1327 Skinners Company
06-Mar 1327 Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
1327 Goldsmiths Company
06-Aug 1348 Dean and Canons of Windsor
Dean and Canons of Windsor
The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.-Foundation:The college of Canons was established in 1348 by Letters Patent of King Edward III. The college was formally constituted on the Feast of St...

1348 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
30-Jun 1379 New College
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

, Oxford
1382 Winchester College
Winchester College
Winchester College is an independent school for boys in the British public school tradition, situated in Winchester, Hampshire, the former capital of England. It has existed in its present location for over 600 years and claims the longest unbroken history of any school in England...

13-Jan 1393 Mercers Company
04-Dec 1416 Cutlers Company
16-Feb 1428 Grocers Company
22-Feb 1437 Brewers Company
23-Aug 1437 Vintners' Company
26-Apr 1439 Cordwainers Company
1444 Leathersellers Company
08-May 1453 Armourers and Brasiers Company
13-Oct 1457 Magdalen College
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

, Oxford
08-Mar 1462 Tallow Chandlers Company
1462 Barbers Company
20-Mar 1463 Ironmongers Company
16-Feb 1471 Dyers Company
20-Jan 1473 Pewterers Company
1474 Corporation of Blacksmith's of Dublin
16-Aug 1475 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
07-Jul 1477 Carpenters Company
16-Feb 1483 Waxchandlers Company
1496 Jesus College
Jesus College, Cambridge
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...

, Cambridge
10-Mar 1501 Plaisterers Company
29-Apr 1501 Coopers Company
23-Feb 1504 Poulters Company
22-Jul 1509 Bakers Company
15-Jan 1512 Brasenose College, Oxford
1517 Corpus Christi College
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...

, Oxford
23-Sep 1518 Royal College of Physicians of London
18-Jan 1528 Clothworkers Company
1532 Bristol Grammar School
25-Aug 1537 Honourable Artillery Company
1541 Kings School Ely
19-Jan 1542 College of Christ of Brecknock
1542 Magdalene College, Cambridge
23-Jul 1545 King Henry VIII School, Coventry
1545 Warwick School
1547 Trinity College, Cambridge
1547 Norwich School
13-Jan 1547 Bethlem Hospital
13-Jan 1547 Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
1549 Pembroke College, Cambridge
13-May 1550 Sherborne School
1550 French Protestant Church of London Charities
12-Aug 1551 St. Thomas's Hospital
14-May 1552 Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is known for sporting sides, such as its Rugby Union 1st XV.-Background:...

17-Jun 1552 King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge
12-Jul 1552 King Edwards School at Bath
18-Dec 1552 Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
1552 Bedford School
1552 King Edwards School, Birmingham
25-Apr 1552 King Edward VI Free Grammar School (King's School), Macclesfield (1) The Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free Grammar School (King's School) (Macclesfield) (2) Foundation of Sir John Percyvale in 1502, refounded by King Edward VI in 1552 with (King Edward VI Free Grammar School Macclesfield)
26-May 1553 Giggleswick School
26-Jun 1553 Bridewell Hospital
26-Jun 1553 Christs Hospital
1553 King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton
1553 Tonbridge School

6-Jan
1554
Boston Grammar School, Lincolnshire
1554 Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
15-Jul 1555 College of Arms
1555 Muscovy Company
1555 St. John Baptist College, Oxford
07-Jul 1556 Charity of the Priest and Poor of Ginge Petre in the County of Essex
04-May 1557 Stationers Company "Stationers and Newspapers Makers Company"
05-Jul 1558 Brentwood School
21-May 1560 Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster
28-Feb 1561 Worcester School
1561 Kingston Grammar School
Kingston Grammar School
Kingston Grammar School is an independent co-educational school in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. The school was founded by Royal Charter in 1561 but can trace its roots back to at least the 13th century. It is a registered charity under English law....

, Kingston upon Thames
25-Oct 1561 Broderers' Company
1562 St. Olave's and St. Saviours Grammar School
15-Jun 1563 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington
1565 Exeter College
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...

, Oxford
1565 Highgate School
Highgate School
-Notable members of staff and governing body:* John Ireton, brother of Henry Ireton, Cromwellian General* 1st Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, owner of Kenwood, noted for judgment finding contracts for slavery unenforceable in English law* T. S...

1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammer School, Blackburn
03-Aug 1568 Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company
12-Oct 1568 Girdlers Company
14-Apr 1570 Joiners Company
1571 Blacksmith's Company
1571 Harrow School
27-Jun 1571 Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College, Oxford
Jesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...

09-Feb 1573 University College, Oxford
University College, Oxford
.University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...

1574 Cranbrook School
25-Nov 1574 Queen Elizabeth's College, Greenwich
1576 Sutton Valence School
1577 Spanish Company
19-Jun 1578 Haberdashers Company
1579 Eastland Company
1579 Turkey Company of London
19-Jul 1581 Painter Stainers Company
1584 Uppingham School
1585 Queen's College, Oxford
1591 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
1594 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
03-May 1597 Hospital of St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne in Oakham
29-Nov 1599 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
22-Mar 1600 Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1600 East India Company
1603 Oriel College, Oxford
1603 Hostmen Company of Freemen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
30-Aug 1603 Fishmongers Company
17-Dec 1603 Bishop Auckland Grammar School
02-Aug 1604 Feltmakers Company
29-Aug 1605 Woodmongers Company
16-Sep 1605 Butchers Company
18-Sep 1605 Gardeners Company
09-Jan 1606 Fruiterers Company
19-Jan 1606 The Drapers' Company C878
30-Apr 1606 Curriers Company
15-May 1607 Salters Company
1610 Newfoundland Company
12-Apr 1611 Plumbers Company
22-Jun 1611 Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse
20-Dec 1611 Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College, Oxford
Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road in central Oxford. It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I...

1611 French Company
1612 Bermuda Company
13-Sep 1612 Don Baudains (Jersey)
1613 Honourable Irish Society
18-Sep 1614 Founders Company
1615 Wilson's Grammar School
28-Jan 1617 Scriveners Company
06-Dec 1617 Society of Apothecaries of London
21-Jun 1619 Dulwich College
21-Jun 1619 New River Company
09-Jun 1621 Brown Bakers Company
1621 Bowyers' Company
13-May 1622 Starch Makers Company
1624 Pembroke College
Pembroke College, Oxford
Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...

, Oxford
14-Jun 1626 Upholders' Company
22-Oct 1628 Playing Card Makers' Company
16-May 1629 Spectacle Makers' Company
1629 Massachusetts Company
03-Jul 1630 Sion College
Sion College
Sion College, in London, is an institution founded by Royal Charter in 1630 as a college, guild of parochial clergy and almshouse, under the 1623 will of Thomas White, vicar of St Dunstan's in the West....

08-Jul 1631 Sackville College
Sackville College
Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse in town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.It was founded in 1609 with money left by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset...

, East Grinstead
22-Aug 1631 Clockmakers' Company
04-Apr 1636 Comb Makers Company
20-Aug 1636 Pinmakers Company
14-Mar 1637 Gunmakers Company
12-Jan 1638 Horners Company
22-May 1638 Soap Makers Company
09-Aug 1638 Distillers Company
06-Nov 1638 Glaziers Company
10-Sep 1639 Glovers Company
1639 Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
10-Nov 1656 Needlemakers Company
13-Jun 1657 Frame Work Knitters Company
28-Nov 1661 Glass Sellers Company
20-Jan 1662 Royal African Company
07-Feb 1662 New England Company
15-Jul 1662 Royal Society
1662 Bradford Grammar School
16-Feb 1663 Cooks Company
21-Dec 1663 Innholders Company
17-Mar 1664 Canary Company
30-Jun 1664 Royal Scottish Corporation
01-Dec 1664 Hat-Band Makers Company
18-May 1666 Broadweavers and Clothiers Company of Coventry
03-Feb 1670 Wheelwrights Company
02-May 1670 Hudsons Bay Company
02-Aug 1670 Pattenmakers Company
29-Dec 1670 Tin Plate Workers Company
18-Nov 1672 Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull
17-Jan 1674 Farriers Company
31-May 1677 Coachmakers Company
17-Dec 1677 Masons Company
01-Jul 1678 Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
19-Oct 1681 Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh
08-Jul 1685 Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond
16-Jun 1693 Gold and Silver Wyre Drawer's Company
27-Jul 1694 Bank of England
16-Jun 1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts "United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel"
15-Jul 1703 Tanners Company of Bermondsey
06-Mar 1704 The Royal Company of Archers C889
26-Apr 1704 Company of the Mine Adventurers of England
03-Nov 1704 Queen Anne's Bounty
19-Apr 1706 Grey Coat Hospital in Tothill Fields of the Foundation of Queen Anne
27-Jul 1706 Amicable Society for a perpetual Assurance Office
17-Nov 1707 Weavers Company
22-Dec 1707 Charitable Corporation for the relief of the Industrious Poor
19-Apr 1709 Fanmakers Company
25-May 1709 Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge
23-May 1711 Blanket Weavers in Witney, Oxfordshire
08-Sep 1711 South Sea Company
03-Dec 1711 Loriners Company
29-Jul 1714 Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

1718 Greenwich Hospital
24-Jul 1718 French Protestant Hospital
27-Jul 1719 Music Society for Carrying on Operas and other entertainments
22-Jun 1720 London Assurance
22-Jun 1720 Royal Exchange Assurance
08-Mar 1723 Chelsea Waterworks Company
Chelsea Waterworks Company
The Chelsea Waterworks Company was a London waterworks company founded in 1723 which supplied water to many central London locations throughout the 18th and 19th centuries until its functions were taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1902....

21-Nov 1724 Equivalent Company
31-May 1727 Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd
31-Jul 1729 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax
23-Oct 1729 Company for working Mines etc. in Scotland
17-Oct 1739 Foundling Hospital
Foundling Hospital
The Foundling Hospital in London, England was founded in 1741 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children." The word "hospital" was used in a more general sense than it is today, simply...

"Thomas Coram Foundation for Children"
27-Aug 1740 Hertford College, Oxford
28-Apr 1741 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Norwich and Norfolk Surrendered 25 July 2007
13-Apr 1742 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Suffolk
25-Jun 1742 Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh
05-Jul 1746 British Linen Bank C453
29-Apr 1747 Governors of the Charity for the relief of the poor Widows and Orphans of Beneficed Clergymen or having Curacys in the County of Essex the Deanery of Braughing and Archdeaconry of St. Albans, County of Hertford and Diocese of London
14-Jul 1748 Excise Incorporation in Scotland
11-Oct 1750 Society of the Free British Fishery
02-Nov 1751 Society of Antiquaries of London C81
09-Dec 1758 London Hospital
26-Jan 1765 Society of Artists of Great Britain
08-Jun 1765 Bethel Hospital, Norwich
19-Jun 1773 Carron Company
22-Jun 1768 College of Doctors of Law
1773 Royal Medical Society
27-Jan 1774 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
24-Mar 1781 Governors of the possessions etc. of the Free Chapel of Hindon within the parish of East Knoyle, Wiltshire
29-Mar 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh
06-May 1783 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
09-Jun 1783 Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
10-Jul 1786 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
17-May 1787 Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland was founded in Edinburgh in 1784 as the Highland Society of Edinburgh. The Society was formed 2 years after the repeal of the Dress Act of 1746, at a time when there was renewed interest in Highland culture.The Society is responsible for...

26-Aug 1790 Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain
21-Dec 1791 Glasgow Royal Infirmary
09-Jan 1792 Society for the Benefit of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
06-Mar 1793 Inverness Royal Academy
23-Aug 1793 Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Internal Improvement
30-Oct 1794 Christian Faith Society
06-Jun 1796 Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glagow
24-Jan 1797 Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
29-Jun 1797 Corporation of the Trinity House of Leith
1798 Commercial Buildings Company of Dublin
20-Jun 1798 Naval Knights of Windsor of the foundation of Samuel Travers Esq.
28-Jun 1798 Ayr Academy
13-Jan 1800 Royal Institution of Great Britain
22-Mar 1800 Royal College of Surgeons of England
05-Jul 1800 Sierra Leone Company
22-Sep 1800 Downing College, Cambridge
19-Apr 1801 James Gillespie's Hospital and Free School
26-Mar 1802 Linnean Society of London
12-May 1802 University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
21-Jan 1807 London Institution for the Advancement of Literature and Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
07-Apr 1807 Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
06-Apr 1809 Tain Royal Academy
1808 Commercial Buildings Company of Cork
17-Apr 1809 Royal Horticultural Society
30-Apr 1812 Gaslight and Coke Company
23-May 1817 National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales "National Society (Church of England) for Promoting Religious Education"
13-Jan 1818 Royal Edinburgh Public Dispensary
19-May 1818 The Royal Literary Fund C187
08-May 1819 Dundee Royal Infirmary
1820 Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee
03-Feb 1821 Royal Incorporation of Hutchesons' Hospital in the City of Glasgow
31-Mar 1821 McGill University, Montreal
24-Nov 1821 Liverpool Royal Institution
06-Feb 1824 North British Insurance Company
06-Feb 1824 Edinburgh Academy
11-Aug 1824 Royal Asiatic Society
14-Oct 1824 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
01-Nov 1824 Australian Agricultural Company
09-Dec 1824 Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
23-Apr 1825 Geological Society of London
30-Jul 1825 Incorporated British, Irish and Colonial Silk Company
15-Sep 1825 Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
10-Nov 1825 Van Diemen's Land Company
23-Feb 1826 West India Company
28-Jun 1826 University Life Assurance Society
19-Aug 1826 Canada Company
15-Mar 1827 University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

02-Aug 1827 Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund
30-Apr 1827 London Portable Gas Company
06-Feb 1828 St David's College, Lampeter "St. David's University College Lampeter" "The University of Wales, Lampeter" "University of Wales: Trinity Saint David" C175
03-Jun 1828 Institution of Civil Engineers
25-Nov 1828 Plymouth Union Bath Company
27-Mar 1829 Zoological Society of London
Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats...

14-Aug 1829 King's College, London
16-Jul 1829 Haytor Granite Mining Company
18-Jan 1830 General Lying-in Hospital
General Lying-In Hospital
The General Lying-In Hospital was opened in April, 1767, as the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, on the north side of Westminster Bridge Road Lambeth with Dr. John Leake as its first physician....

25-Jan 1830 Schaw Bequest
19-May 1830 Directors of the Dundee Orphanage Trust
23-Jun 1830 Royal Academy of Music
22-Nov 1830 Mauritius Bank
07-Mar 1831 Royal Astronomical Society
02-Mar 1831 United General Gas Company
05-Aug 1831 Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd
16-May 1832 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
06-Aug 1832 Cambridge Philosophical Society
20-Feb 1834 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company
20-Mar 1834 British American Land Company
26-Jul 1834 Wearmouth Dock Company
30-Sep 1834 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London "Royal Society of Medicine"
13-Oct 1834 Society for the illustration and encouragement of Practical Science
03-May 1836 Society of Licensed Victuallers
28-Nov 1836 University of London
28-Nov 1836 University College, London
13-Apr 1836 Colonial Bank
11-Jan 1837 Royal Institute of British Architects
01-Jun 1837 University of Durham
07-Jun 1837 Company of Stationers of Glasgow
11-Nov 1837 Millar and Peadie's School
27-Jan 1838 Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society
26-Apr 1838 Royal Naval Benevolent Society
13-Aug 1838 Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture
23-Aug 1838 Polytechnic Institution
06-Sep 1839 Royal Botanic Society of London
10-Apr 1839 Insurance Company of Scotland
26-Aug 1839 Mauritius Commercial Bank
Mauritius Commercial Bank
Mauritius Commercial Bank , founded in 1838, is the oldest and largest banking institution of Mauritius. It is also the oldest banking institution south of the Sahara and one of the oldest banks of the Commonwealth to have preserved its original name...

26-Aug 1839 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by Scot James Macqueen. After good and bad times it became the largest shipping group in the world in 1927 when it took over the White Star Line....

26-Mar 1840 Royal Agricultural Society of England
03-Jan 1840 Bank of British North America
29-Jan 1840 Pacific Steam Navigation Company
01-Aug 1840 Society of Solicitors of Banffshire
10-Aug 1840 Bank of Ceylon
11-Sep 1840 Australian Trust Company
11-Sep 1840 West India Bank
10-Nov 1840 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
12-Feb 1841 New Zealand Company
16-Mar 1841 Bank of Australasia
26-Apr 1841 Life Association of Scotland
19-Jun 1841 Murdoch's Boys' School
16-Oct 1841 Queens University at Kingston, Ontario
16-Mar 1842 McLachlan's Free School
30-Jun 1842 Artists General Benevolent Institution
15-Dec 1842 Licensed Victuallers Asylum "Licensed Victuallers National Homes"
11-Aug 1842 British Plate Glass Company( Granted for one year)
18-Feb 1843 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain "Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain"
03-Apr 1843 Royal Grammar School Worcester
27-Apr 1843 Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses Worcester
17-Jul 1843 Queens College, Birmingham
18-Jan 1844 Ionian Bank
08-Mar 1844 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
04-Jun 1844 Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution
26-Feb 1845 Law Society
21-Aug 1845 Marlborough College
13-Jan 1845 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada "Toronto and London Investment Company Ltd"
03-Feb 1845 Agricultural College, Cirencester
30-Jun 1845 Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes "Metropolitan Property Association"
08-Aug 1845 Preston Banking Company
1845 Queen's University, Belfast
20-Nov 1845 Smyrna Bank
18-Mar 1846 Trust Company
06-Apr 1846 British Whale and Seal Fishery Company
19-May 1846 General Mining Association (Nova Scotia and Cape Breton)
30-Oct 1846 Art Union of London
30-Oct 1846 British West India Company
14-Nov 1846 Exchange Bank of Scotland
03-Feb 1847 Royal Society of British Artists
27-Feb 1847 Southern and Western Mining Company of Ireland
20-May 1847 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)
20-May 1847 India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company
17-Jun 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
17-Jun 1847 Great Southern and Eastern Steam Packet Company
17-Jun 1847 Valentia Slab Company in Ireland
22-Jul 1847 South Australian Banking Company
22-Jul 1847 General Screw Steam Shipping Company
22-Nov 1847 Association for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Scotland
02-Mar 1848 Royal Irish Fisheries Company
02-Mar 1848 Southern Whale Fishery Company
08-May 1848 Governesses Benevolent Institution "Schoolmistresses and Governesses Benevolent Institution"
27-Jun 1848 Missionary College of Saint Augustine Canterbury "St Augustine's Foundation"
04-Sep 1848 Chemical Society
Chemical Society
The Chemical Society was formed in 1841 as a result of increased interest in scientific matters....

31-Oct 1848 Irish Amelioration Society
16-Dec 1848 College of Preceptors "College of Teachers"
01-Mar 1849 Warneford Lunatic Asylum (Oxford)
01-May 1849 Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand
30-Jul 1849 Royal British Bank
Royal British Bank
The Royal British Bank was a British joint-stock bank, established under a Royal Charter in 1849, that collapsed in 1856, causing a scandal.In 1858 the eight directors — not including the bank's founder, John MacGregor, Member of Parliament for Glasgow, who had left the bank in 1854 and died in...

05-Sep 1849 Banbury Banking Company
08-Jan 1850 Royal Panopticon of Science and Art
14-Aug 1850 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
14-Aug 1850 Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes "1830 Housing Society"
12-Dec 1850 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is an organisation dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and advancement in surgical practice, through its interest in education, training and examinations, its liaison with external medical bodies and representation of the modern surgical workforce...

07-Mar 1851 British and Irish Peat Company
14-Apr 1851 Submarine Telegraph Company "Submarine Telegraph Company between Great Britain and the Continent of Europe"
05-May 1851 Educational Institute of Scotland
Educational Institute of Scotland
The Educational Institute of Scotland is the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, having been founded in 1847 when dominies became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of education in Scotland on their professional status....

25-Jun 1851 Eastern Steam Navigation Company
07-Aug 1851 Oriental Bank Corporation
Oriental Bank Corporation
The Oriental Bank Corporation was a bank in India in the 19th century. It was also the first bank in Hong Kong and the first bank to issue banknotes in Hong Kong....

07-Aug 1851 Great Peat Working Company of Ireland
07-Aug 1851 South American and General Steam Navigation Company
23-Oct 1851 Falkland Islands Company
23-Oct 1851 Leith Chamber of Commerce
16-Jul 1852 University of Trinity College
University of Trinity College
The University of Trinity College, informally referred to as Trin, is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Trinity was intended by Strachan as a college of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of...

, Toronto, Ontario
08-Dec 1852 Laval University, Quebec
02-Feb 1852 Irish Beet Sugar Company
02-Feb 1852 West of Ireland Land Investment Company
05-Mar 1852 Colonial Gold Company
05-Mar 1852 Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company
05-Mar 1852 Irish Land Company
05-Apr 1852 English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company
05-Apr 1852 General Theatrical Fund Association "The Royal Theatrical Fund"
15-May 1852 Irish Submarine Telegraph Company
15-May 1852 English Company for Working Mines in Ireland
15-Jun 1852 Australasian Gold Mining Company
15-Jun 1852 Port Philip and Colonial Gold Mining Company
30-Jun 1852 President and Managers of the Infirmary of Aberdeen
30-Jun 1852 African Steamship Company
African Steamship Company
The African Steamship Company was a British shipping line in the 19th and early 20th centuries.The company was founded in the middle of the 19th century by Macgregor Laird, the younger son of the shipbuilder William Laird, and based in Birkenhead...

18-Aug 1852 Liverpool and Australian Navigation Company
18-Aug 1852 Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company
16-Oct 1852 London Chartered Bank of Australia
10-Nov 1852 Liverpool and African Screw Steam Carrying Company
10-Nov 1852 English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank
28-Dec 1852 Crystal Palace Company
28-Jan 1853 Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec
13-Dec 1853 Wellington College
Wellington College, Berkshire
-Former pupils:Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher...

04-Jan 1853 Bucks and Oxon Union Bank
13-Jun 1853 Australian Direct Steam Navigation Company via Panana
13-Jun 1853 British Telegraph Company
13-Jun 1853 East Indian Iron Company
13-Jun 1853 Council and Committee of Queen's College "Queen's College London"
13-Jun 1853 International Telegraph Company
08-Aug 1853 Friend of the Clergy
19-Aug 1853 Chartered Bank of Asia
19-Aug 1853 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China was a bank founded in London in 1851/1853 by Scotsman James Wilson following the grant of a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. It opened its first branches in 1858 in Calcutta and Bombay and then in 1863 in Karachi and Shanghai...

"Standard Chartered Bank"
07-Apr 1854 Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
07-Apr 1854 City of Worcester Association for Building Dwellings for the Labouring Classess
13-Sep 1854 Society of Accountants in Edinburgh "Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland"
18-Oct 1854 London and Eastern Banking Corporation
08-Feb 1855 Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow
08-Feb 1855 Australian Mining Company
21-May 1855 Manchester and Salford Baths and Laundries Company
21-May 1855 Bank of London
06-Jun 1855 Colonial Fibre Company
26-Jun 1855 City Bank
City Bank
The City Bank was an early bank in Ontario in the 19th century and merged with Royal Canadian Bank to form Consolidated Bank of Canada in 1876....

21-Jul 1855 Salopian Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
21-Nov 1855 South Australia Company
South Australia Company
The South Australian Company was formed in London on 9 October 1835 by George Fife Angas and other wealthy British merchants to develop a new settlement in South Australia; its purpose was to build a new colony...

07-Dec 1855 President and Managers of the Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind
07-Dec 1855 Bank of Egypt
25-Feb 1856 Unity Joint Stoke Mutual Banking Association
04-Apr 1856 Ottoman Bank
Ottoman Bank
The Ottoman Bank was founded in 1856 in the Galata business section of İstanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as a joint venture between British interests, the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas of France, and the Ottoman government.The opening capital of the Bank consisted of 135,000 shares,...

28-Apr 1856 Western Bank of London
28-Apr 1856 London and Paris Joint Stock Bank
07-Feb 1857 Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and Country of Perth
12-Jul 1857 Hospital for Women
06-May 1857 Agra and United Service Bank
27-Aug 1857 Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China
03-Feb 1858 University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

14-Mar 1859 University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

11-Jan 1859 Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

18-Apr 1859 Royal Dramatic College
06-Jul 1859 Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors
23-Sep 1859 National Benevolent Institution, founded by the late Peter Herve
22-Oct 1859 High School of Dundee
High School of Dundee
The High School of Dundee is an independent, co-educational, day school in the city of Dundee, Scotland which provides both primary and secondary education to just over one thousand pupils...

23-Jan 1860 Royal United Service Institution "Royal United Services Institute for Defence"
07-Mar 1860 Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
26-Oct 1860 London and South African Bank
04-Feb 1861 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862
05-Aug 1861 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
20-Nov 1861 Glasgow Art Union
26-Apr 1862 Bank of British Columbia
19-Jul 1862 Salisbury Infirmary
01-Nov 1862 Asylum for Idiots "Royal Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives"
01-Nov 1862 Saint Andrew's College, Bradfield
03-Feb 1864 Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East
03-Feb 1864 Asiatic Banking Corporation
03-Feb 1864 Dundee Chamber of Commerce "Dundee and Tayside Chamber of Commerce and Industry"
03-Feb 1864 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
03-Feb 1864 Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men
07-Apr 1864 Natal Native Trust
07-Apr 1864 Department of Science and Art
09-Jul 1864 Friend of the Clergy
09-Jul 1864 Albert Middle Class College in Suffolk "Framlingham College"
28-Jul 1864 Haileybury College "Haileybury and Imperial Service College"
01-Nov 1864 Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation "Printers' Charitable Corporation"
05-Dec 1865 Meteorological Society "Royal Meteorological Society"
24-Mar 1866 Glasgow Magdalene Institution
09-May 1866 Corporation for Middle Class Education in the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof
26-Jul 1866 Microscopical Society "Royal Microscopical Society"
28-Dec 1866 Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences (Royal Albert Hall)
26-Feb 1867 Preceptor, Patrons and Directors of Baillie's Institution in Glasgow
04-Mar 1867 Society of Accountants in Aberdeen
17-May 1867 Poor Clergy Relief Society "Poor Clergy Relief Corporation"
04-Nov 1867 Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as respects Wrecked and Damaged Property "Salvage Association"
30-Jul 1868 Crossley Orphan Home and School "Crossley and Porter Orphan Home and School"
14-Sep 1868 Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland Surrendered 21/07/2010 Merged with Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
04-Jun 1870 Keble College, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall...

06-Jul 1871 Incorporated Lay Body of the Church of England in Jamaica
17-Mar 1875 Royal Veterinary College
13-May 1875 Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum
27-Jun 1876 University of New Zealand
23-Oct 1876 North England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
07-Feb 1877 Clifton College
11-Jul 1877 University of the Cape of Good Hope "University of South Africa"
18-Mar 1880 Victoria University "Victoria University of Manchester"
24-Mar 1880 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
02-Mar 1881 University of Adelaide
15-Jul 1881 Surveyors Institution "Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors"
26-Aug 1881 South Wales Institute of Engineers
26-Aug 1881 University College, Liverpool
26-Aug 1881 British North Borneo Company
18-Aug 1882 Selwyn College, Cambridge
18-Aug 1882 Royal Colonial Institute "Royal Commonwealth Society"
20-Apr 1883 Royal College of Music
23-Aug 1883 Charing Cross Hospital
12-Dec 1883 Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland "Scottish Law Agents Society"
26-Jun 1884 St. Paul's Hostel, Cambridge
26-Jun 1884 Institute of Actuaries Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
11-Aug 1884 University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire "Cardiff University "
29-Nov 1884 Radcliffe Infirmary
Radcliffe Infirmary
The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street. The Radcliffe Infirmary, named after physician John Radcliffe, opened in 1770 and was Oxford's first hospital...

, Oxford
30-Dec 1884 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the separate or Cottage principle "President and Governors of the Royal National Hospital for Disease of the Chest, Ventnor"
26-Mar 1885 University College of North Wales "Bangor University" C5
19-May 1885 Queen Charlotte's Lying in Hospital "Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital"
19-May 1885 Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland "Royal Institute of Chemistry"
24-Jun 1885 Entomological Society of London "Royal Entomological Society of London"
12-Aug 1885 Colonial and Indian Exhibition Commissioners 1886
08-Mar 1886 Princess Helena College
25-Jun 1886 National African Company
14-Jan 1887 Royal Statistical Society
07-Feb 1888 Trustees of the Buchanan Bequest
07-Feb 1888 Corporation of the Church House
03-May 1888 Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and India and the Isles of the British Seas
03-May 1888 Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England "Grand Priory of the Most Venera Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem"
10-Aug 1888 Imperial British East Africa Company
05-Jul 1889 Royal Historical Society
23-Jul 1889 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth "Aberystwyth University"
19-Aug 1889 Manchester Whitworth Institute
19-Aug 1889 Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses "Queen's Nursing Institute"
19-Aug 1889 Imperial Bank of Persia "British Bank of the Middle East"
15-Oct 1889 British South Africa Company
08-Feb 1890 Institute of Journalists
21-Oct 1890 National Rifle Association
21-Oct 1890 Rossall School
21-Oct 1890 St. Peter's College, Radley
22-Nov 1890 Newspaper Press Fund
22-Nov 1890 Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital
09-May 1891 Royal Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen
30-Jul 1891 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
28-Jun 1892 Royal Free Hospital
05-Aug 1892 Governors of the Buchanan Retreat
16-May 1893 Royal British Nurses Association
23-Nov 1893 University of Wales
23-Nov 1893 Royal College of Organists
1894 West London Hospital
11-May 1895 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
26-Nov 1897 Queen Victoria Clergy Fund
03-Feb 1897 Library Association "Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals"
19-May 1898 Corporation of the Cranleigh and Bramley Schools
19-May 1898 Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
09-Aug 1898 Royal Blind Ayslum and School, Edinburgh
07-Mar 1899 League of Mercy
07-Mar 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
14-Jul 1899 Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow
07-Oct 1899 Iron and Steel Institute
07-Oct 1899 British Home and Hospital for Incurables
03-Mar 1900 University of Birmingham
17-Sep 1900 City and Guilds of London Institute
17-Sep 1900 Great Northern Central Hospital "Royal Northern Hospital"
26-Nov 1900 Governors of the Peabody Donation Fund
11-Jun 1902 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland
26-Jul 1902 British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies
15-Sep 1902 Weavers Society of Anderston
20-Oct 1902 Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies and other Public Bodies "Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators"
19-Nov 1902 Royal Economic Society
16-Feb 1903 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
16-Feb 1903 Royal Society for Home Relief to Incurables, Edinburgh
09-Jul 1903 Victoria University of Manchester "University of Manchester"
09-Jul 1903 University of Liverpool
09-Jul 1903 Chartered Society of Queen Square Surrendered
10-Aug 1903 University College of Nottingham "University of Nottingham"
11-Feb 1904 Royal Numismatic Society
21-Apr 1904 University of Leeds
15-Jul 1904 West India Committee
10-Aug 1904 British Cotton Growing Association
24-Oct 1904 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
29-May 1905 University of Sheffield
11-Jul 1905 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
07-Aug 1905 Liverpool Royal Infirmary
11-May 1906 British and Foreign School Society
30-Jun 1906 Institute of Directors
01-Dec 1906 Hull Royal Infirmary
11-Feb 1907 Royal Warrant Holders Association
01-Mar 1907 National Museum of Wales
01-Mar 1907 National Library of Wales
01-Jun 1907 Society of Chemical Industry
06-Jul 1907 Imperial College of Science and Technology "Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine"
02-Nov 1907 Royal Society of South Africa
01-Aug 1908 British Red Cross Society
21-Dec 1908 Bedford College for Women Since 1985 called Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Now governed by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Act 1985
17-May 1909 University of Bristol
10-Aug 1909 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists
22-Apr 1910 Cancer Hospital (Free) "Royal Marsden Hospital"
13-Oct 1910 Association of Deacons of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
28-Nov 1910 Institution of Naval Architects "Royal Institution of Naval Architects"
23-Jan 1911 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association
25-May 1911 Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers "Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers"
16-Dec 1911 Boy Scouts Association "Scout Association"
17-Jan 1912 Chartered Insurance Institute
14-May 1912 King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association
14-Jun 1912 British School at Rome
16-Dec 1912 King Edward VII Sanatorium "King Edward VII Hospital"
11-Feb 1913 Paton Trust
11-Feb 1913 Faculty of Surveyors of Scotland
24-Jun 1913 Zoological Society of Scotland "Royal Zoological Society of Scotland"
14-Oct 1913 Royal Asylum of Montrose
14-Oct 1913 Montrose Royal Infirmary
30-Mar 1914 Liverpool Merchants Guild
07-Jan 1915 Institution of Mining Engineers
07-Jan 1915 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
02-Jun 1915 University of Tasmania
23-May 1916 School of Oriental Studies, London Institution "School of Oriental and African Studies"
07-Sep 1916 The Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves "The Society for the Promotion of Nature Conservation" "The Royal Society for Nature Conservation" "Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts" C97
16-Nov 1916 Imperial Trust for the encouragement of Scientific and Industrial Research
30-Mar 1917 Newnham College, Cambridge
14-Apr 1917 British Trade Corporation
10-May 1917 Imperial War Graves Commission "Commonwealth War Graves Commission"
19-May 1917 Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees
27-Nov 1917 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
14-Jan 1919 Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees
24-Feb 1919 Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow
15-Apr 1919 Representative Body of the Church in Wales
30-May 1919 Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau
30-May 1919 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney "Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability"
09-Dec 1919 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
09-Dec 1919 University College of Swansea "Swansea University" 30/8/2007
20-Dec 1919 King George's Fund for Sailors
20-Dec 1919 Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund
11-Mar 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
25-Mar 1920 Medical Research Council
25-Mar 1920 Forestry Commissioners
17-May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
17-May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics "Chartered Society of Physiotherapy"
28-Jun 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
13-Oct 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
22-Apr 1921 United Services Fund
10-Jun 1921 Officers Association
14-Jul 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
10-Aug 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
11-Oct 1921 Empire Forestry Association "Commonwealth Forestry Association"
11-Oct 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation "Cotton Research Corporation"
07-Nov 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen "Institute of Cast Metals Engineers"
13-Dec 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
06-Feb 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
03-Mar 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
03-Mar 1922 Over-Seas League "Royal Over-Seas League"
01-Apr 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)
05-May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland "Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland"
20-Jun 1922 St. John's Foundation School
10-Aug 1922 College of Estate Management
06-Dec 1922 Toc H (Incorporated)
Toc H
Toc H is an international Christian movement. The name is an abbreviation for Talbot House, 'Toc' signifying the letter T in the signals spelling alphabet used by the British Army in World War I. A soldiers' rest and recreation centre named Talbot House was founded in December 1915 at Poperinghe,...

"Toc H"
06-Dec 1922 Girl Guides Association "The Guide Association"
29-Jan 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
12-Mar 1923 British Institute of Florence
27-Mar 1923 Royal Manchester College of Music
04-May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
04-May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
26-Jun 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
26-Jun 1923 Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital
11-Oct 1923 Dover College
21-Mar 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
25-Jun 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
25-Jul 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
06-Feb 1925 Textile Institute
17-Mar 1925 British Legion "Royal British Legion"
12-Oct 1925 League of Nations Union
12-Oct 1925 London Playing Fields Society
12-Oct 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon "Royal Shakespeare Theatre", then "Royal Shakespeare Company'"
16-Dec 1925 The Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association 'The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association - Forces Help C141
01-Feb 1926 University of Reading
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

25-Feb 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford "Lady Margaret College, Oxford"
25-Feb 1926 St. Hilda's College
St Hilda's College, Oxford
St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.The college was founded in 1893 as a hall for women, and remained an all-women's college until 2006....

, Oxford
25-Feb 1926 Birkbeck College
25-Feb 1926 Royal Medico-Psychological Association "Royal College of Psychiatrists"
30-Apr 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there...

01-Jun 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
01-Jun 1926 The Mothers Union
28-Jun 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
28-Jun 1926 St. Hugh's College, Oxford
05-Nov 1926 Institute of Transport "Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport"
05-Nov 1926 Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture
20-Nov 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
14-Dec 1926 National Police Fund
06-Feb 1928 National Association of Colliery Managers
22-Mar 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
British Association for the Advancement of Science
frame|right|"The BA" logoThe British Association for the Advancement of Science or the British Science Association, formerly known as the BA, is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating interaction between...

22-Mar 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
13-Jul 1928 College of Nursing "Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom"
14-Aug 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
20-Nov 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital
20-Nov 1928 National Art Collection Fund
21-Dec 1928 Malvern College
29-Jan 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
01-Mar 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
21-Mar 1929 British Engineering Standards Association "British Standards Institution"
07-May 1929 Land Agent's Society
10-May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
10-May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
05-Jul 1929 National Radium Trust
05-Jul 1929 Institute of Hygiene Royal Institute of Public Health merged with Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and petitioned for a new charter of incorporation under the name of The Royal Society for Public Health (11/6/2008)
17-Dec 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford
20-Jan 1930 Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland
28-Mar 1930 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
28-Jul 1930 King Edwards VII's Hospital for Officers, Sister Agnes Founder
28-Jul 1930 Honourable Company of Master Mariners
Honourable Company of Master Mariners
The Honourable Company of Master Mariners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1926; it was made a Livery Company by the City of London in 1932, making it the first new Livery Company to be formed in over a century...

28-Jul 1930 Oundle School
28-Jul 1930 East Ham Memorial Hospital
18-Dec 1930 Welsh National School of Medicine "University of Wales College of Medicine"
20-Mar 1931 Imperial Service College
27-Mar 1931 National Central Library
29-Jun 1931 Agricultural Research Council "Agricultural & Food Research Council"
29-Jun 1931 British Postgraduate Medical School "Royal Postgraduate Medical School"
01-Oct 1931 Glasgow Fishmongers Company
07-Oct 1931 Australian Chemical Institute "Royal Australian Chemical Institute"
07-Oct 1931 Royal Seamen's Pension Fund
11-Feb 1932 Universities China Committee in London
15-Dec 1932 National Playing Fields Association
16-Mar 1933 Institute of Marine Engineers
25-May 1933 London Library
26-Jun 1933 Westfield College, London
26-Jun 1933 Company of Newspaper Makers
22-Mar 1934 Institution of Structural Engineers
09-Nov 1934 Queen Mary College
20-Dec 1934 City of London Maternity Hospital
21-Feb 1935 Cheltenham Ladies College
06-Jun 1935 Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
13-Aug 1935 Institution of Engineers (India)
20-Dec 1935 Royal Academy of Dancing "Royal Academy of Dance"
27-Oct 1936 Children's Aid Society
13-Apr 1937 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
29-Jul 1937 General Infirmary at Leeds
24-Feb 1938 Institution of Engineers Australia
15-Mar 1938 Institution of Automobile Engineers
04-Nov 1938 London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women "Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine"
25-Nov 1938 Roedean School
25-May 1939 National Association of Boy's Clubs "NABC - Clubs for Young People"
25-Jul 1939 Imperial Cancer Research Fund
19-Sep 1940 British Council
30-May 1941 Australian Red Cross Society
26-Jun 1946 King's School, Canterbury
26-Jun 1946 Worshipful Company of Carmen
10-Jul 1946 The Arts Council of Great Britain In 1994 split in three: The Arts Council of England Scottish Arts Council Arts Council of Wales C159
10-Jul 1946 Institute of Fuel (1) Institute of Energy (6 February 1979) (2) Institute of Energy merged with Institute of Petroleum now called "Energy Institute" (8 May 2003)
29-Jan 1947 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
10-Mar 1947 British Postgraduate Medical Federation
28-Oct 1947 Scottish National War Memorial Trustees
28-Oct 1947 Officers Families Fund
13-Nov 1947 Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institute
09-Jul 1948 University of Nottingham
13-Sep 1948 Wye College
13-Sep 1948 Institution of Municipal Engineers
25-Oct 1948 British and Foreign Bible Society
22-Dec 1948 Royal Aeronautical Society
22-Dec 1948 University College of the West Indies "University of the West Indies"
04-Mar 1949 Nature Conservancy
04-Mar 1949 National Institute for the Blind (1) "Royal National Institute for the Blind" (2)"Royal National Institute of Blind People"
30-Jun 1949 University College of North Staffordshire "University of Keele"
25-Nov 1949 Railway Benevolent Institution
31-Mar 1950 Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society "Royal Alfred Seafarers' Society"
25-Apr 1950 Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
25-Apr 1950 Standards Association of Australia
09-Oct 1950 National Oceanographic Council
09-Oct 1950 University College of Leicester "University of Leicester"
08-Dec 1950 Worshipful Company of Musicians
21-Dec 1950 Campbell College, Belfast
01-Nov 1951 Ceylon Red Cross Society "Sri Lanka Red Cross Society"
14-Nov 1951 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
24-Mar 1952 University of Southampton
09-Apr 1952 School of Pharmacy, University of London
29-Apr 1952 St. Anne's College, Oxford
29-Jul 1952 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
25-Nov 1952 Principal and Governors of Queen Elizabeth College
04-Dec 1952 Royal Air Forces Association
01-Apr 1953 St. Anthony's College, Oxford
30-Apr 1953 Faculty of Radiologists "Royal College of Radiologists"
20-Jan 1954 Australian Academy of Science
13-May 1954 University of Hull
University of Hull
The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...

15-Jul 1954 Royal Naval Association
21-Dec 1954 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
10-Feb 1955 University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
07-Apr 1955 Cuddesdon Theological College "Ripon College Cuddesdon"
07-Apr 1955 Seafarers Education Service
29-Jul 1955 Manchester College of Science and Technology "University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology" and has now changed to "University of Manchester"
29-Jul 1955 Company of Farmers of the City of London
29-Jul 1955 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
28-Oct 1955 University of Exeter
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

09-Oct 1956 Royal Ballet
15-Feb 1957 St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
22-Feb 1957 Institution of Chemical Engineers
15-Mar 1957 University of Leicester
17-May 1957 City of London Solicitor's Company
23-Aug 1957 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
19-Feb 1958 British Institute of Radiology
14-Mar 1958 Nuffield College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is an all-graduate college and primarily a research establishment, specialising in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. It is a research centre in the social sciences...

07-May 1958 National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science
21-Nov 1958 Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants "Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy"
19-Dec 1958 Royal Humane Society
15-Jun 1959 Town Planning Institute "Royal Town Planning Institute"
21-Dec 1959 Fourah Bay College - The University College of Sierra Leone
08-Apr 1960 National Army Museum
03-Aug 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
26-Oct 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
02-Aug 1961 University of Sussex
02-Aug 1961 British Institution of Radio Engineers "Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers"
24-Oct 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
24-Oct 1961 St. Peter's College, Oxford
06-Dec 1961 University of Keele
21-Dec 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
26-Feb 1962 University of the West Indies
02-Oct 1962 Magistrates Association
28-Nov 1962 Library Association of Australia
26-Mar 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
02-May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
30-May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
29-Jul 1963 University of York
University of York
The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

29-Jul 1963 St. Catherine's College, Oxford
29-Jul 1963 Animal Health Trust
Animal Health Trust
The Animal Health Trust is a veterinary charity in the United Kingdom dedicated to improving the health and welfare of horses, dogs, and cats. It was founded in 1942 and was awarded a Royal Charter on 29 July 1963...

27-Nov 1963 University of East Anglia
27-Nov 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland "University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland"
26-Mar 1964 Institution of Production Engineers "Institution of Manufacturing Engineers"
23-Jun 1964 University of Strathclyde
23-Jun 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
27-Jul 1964 University of Lancaster
27-Jul 1964 Council for National Academic Awards
20-Nov 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury "The University of Kent" 04/10/2010 C388
20-Nov 1964 University of Essex
29-Jan 1965 University of Warwick
26-Feb 1965 Science Research Council "Science and Engineering Research Council"
26-Feb 1965 British Psychological Society
04-May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
03-Aug 1965 Council of Engineering Institutions
03-Aug 1965 London Mathematical Society
29-Oct 1965 The Social Science Research Council "The Economic and Social Research Council" C73
31-Jan 1966 Heriot-Watt University
24-Feb 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
10-Mar 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
06-Apr 1966 City University
09-Jun 1966 Brunel University
28-Jul 1966 University of Surrey
28-Jul 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
20-Sep 1966 University of Bradford
20-Sep 1966 Bath University of Technology "University of Bath"
10-Feb 1967 University of Salford
28-Jun 1967 University of Dundee
28-Jul 1967 Royal College of Art
23-Aug 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
10-Oct 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
13-Nov 1967 University of Stirling
13-Nov 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
22-Mar 1968 Royal African Society
23-Apr 1969 Open University
25-Jun 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
31-Jul 1969 Australian Institute of Building
28-Nov 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
28-Nov 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology "Cranfield University"
19-Dec 1969 Royal College of Pathologists
04-Feb 1970 Jockey Club (incorporating the National Hunt Committee)
04-Feb 1970 University of the South Pacific
28-Jul 1970 New University of Ulster
30-Sep 1970 Institute of Physics
11-Mar 1971 Heythrop College
22-Dec 1971 Chelsea College, University of London
22-Dec 1971 The Sports Council In 1996 split to become "The United Kingdom Sports Council" and "The English Sports Council" C319
22-Dec 1971 Scottish Sports Council
22-Dec 1971 Sports Council for Wales
28-Jun 1972 New Hall, Cambridge
23-Oct 1972 Royal College of General Practitioners
24-Oct 1973 Anglo-German Foundation for the study of Industrial Society
16-Oct 1974 Association of Certified Accountants "Association of Chartered Certified Accountants"
12-Feb 1975 Institute of Cost and Management Accountants "Chartered Institute of Management Accountants"
12-Feb 1975 Institution of Metallurgists "Institute of Materials" then to "The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining"
18-Mar 1975 Institute of Measurement and Control
12-Nov 1975 College of Law
17-Mar 1976 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers under title of "Chartered Institution of Building Services"
19-May 1976 Design Council
19-May 1976 Society of Industrial Artists and Designers "The Chartered Society of Designers"
09-Jun 1976 Darwin College, Cambridge
15-Sep 1976 Institute of Bankers in Scotland "Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland"
27-Oct 1976 Wolfson College, Cambridge
15-Nov 1977 University College, London
25-Apr 1978 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland (new)
06-Feb 1979 Institute of Arbitrators
14-Mar 1979 Building Societies Institute
14-Mar 1979 Institute of Biology Society of Biology
13-Feb 1980 King's College, London
19-Mar 1980 Royal Society of Chemistry (amalgamation between Royal Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Society)
28-Jul 1980 Institute of Building "Chartered Institute of Building"
18-Feb 1981 Wolfson College, Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford
Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows. It caters to a wide range of...

28-Oct 1981 Engineering Council
10-Feb 1982 Institute of Foresters
11-Feb 1983 University of Buckingham
22-Jun 1983 British Film Institute
18-May 1983 Crafts Council
20-Apr 1984 Fellowship of Engineering "Royal Academy of Engineering"
11-Apr 1984 Industrial Society "The Work Foundation"
25-Jun 1984 Institute of Housing "Chartered Institute of Housing"
25-Jun 1984 Institution of Environmental Health Officers "Chartered Institute of Environmental Health"
31-Jul 1984 University of Ulster
31-Jul 1984 British Computer Society
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...

12-Sep 1984 Clare Hall, Cambridge
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students.Informality is a defining value at Clare Hall and this contributes to its unique character...

30-Oct 1984 Robinson College, Cambridge
Robinson College, Cambridge
Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Robinson is the newest of the Cambridge colleges, and is unique in being the only one to have been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of either sex.- History :The college was founded...

05-Jun 1986 Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the UK, currently offering graduate entry only. It is located on St Cross Road at the corner of St Cross Road and South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by...

08-Jul 1986 London Graduate School of Business Studies
25-Nov 1986 Museums and Galleries Commission
10-Feb 1987 Institute of Bankers (1) "Chartered Institute of Bankers" (2) "ifs School of Finance"
10-Jun 1987 University of London Institute of Education
23-Mar 1988 College of Ophthalmologists
27-Apr 1988 Motability
07-Feb 1989 Institute of Marketing "Chartered Institute of Marketing"
02-Aug 1989 Queen Mary and Westfield College
19-Dec 1989 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind
01-Nov 1989 Goldsmith's College, University of London
07-Jun 1990 The Institute of Mathematics and it Applications
26-Jun 1990 Royal Star and Garter Homes for Disabled Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen
21-May 1991 The Henley Management College C617
11-Feb 1992 Royal College of Anaesthetists C417
15-Jul 1992 The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply C393
16-Dec 1993 The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 29/03/1994 C714
16-Dec 1993 The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 29/04/1994 C715
16-Dec 1993 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council Surrendered 14/11/2007 C716
08-Feb 1994 The Arts Council of England C938
08-Feb 1994 The Scottish Arts Council Charter revoked by the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 - 1/7/2010 C723
08-Feb 1994 The Arts Council of Wales 30/03/1994 C722
15-Mar 1994 The Institute of Taxation "The Chartered Institute of Taxation" C377
14-Dec 1994 The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management C663
14-Dec 1994 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Council Surrendered C739
11-Apr 1995 The Principal and Fellows of Mansfield College in the University of Oxford — Known as Mansfield College, Oxford
Mansfield College, Oxford
Mansfield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Of the colleges that accept both undergraduate and graduate students Mansfield College is one of the smallest, comprising approximately 210 undergraduates, 130 graduates, 35 visiting students and 50...

C392
11-Apr 1995 The President, Fellows and Students of Templeton College in the University of Oxford — Known as Green Templeton College, Oxford
Green Templeton College, Oxford
Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is the university's newest college having come into existence on 1 October 2008 from the merger of Green College and Templeton College...

"The Principal, Fellows and Students of Green Templeton College in the University of Oxford" C674
28-Jun 1995 The College of Optometrists C20
23-Nov 1995 The Principal and Fellows of The Manchester Academy and Harris College in the University of Oxford — Known as Manchester College, Oxford C733
13-Mar 1996 Cardiff County Council
23-Jul 1996 English Sports Council C808
23-Jul 1996 The United Kingdom Sports Council C937
23-Jul 1996 College of Paediatrics and Child Health "Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health" C690
23-Jul 1996 Borough of North East Lincolnshire
26-Jun 1997 The Landscape Institute 22/08/1997 C661
22-Jul 1997 The President and Fellows of Lucy Cavendish College in the University of Cambridge Known as Lucy Cavendish College 575
22-Jul 1997 Brighton and Hove Council
11-Feb 1998 Medway Town Council
11-Feb 1998 Historic Royal Palaces 06/03/1998 C777
22-Apr 1998 The Master, Fellows and Scholars of St. Edmund's College in the University of Cambridge Commonly known as St Edmund's College, Cambridge 06/07/1998 C753
15-Oct 1998 North Lincolnshire District Council
12-Oct 1999 The Prince's Trust C786
24-Nov 1999 The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund C364
08-Feb 2000 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development C210
12-Jul 2000 The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland C696
11-Apr 2001 The Institution of Incorporated Engineers C789
11-Dec 2001 Chartered Institution of Wastes Management C590
12-Feb 2002 Chartered Management Institute C812
12-Feb 2002 Telford and the Wreken Borough
26-Jun 2002 The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health C647
12-Jun 2003 The Science Council C811
11-Feb 2004 The Worshipful Company of Engineers
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...

C813
11-Feb 2004 The Worshipful Company of Paviors
Worshipful Company of Paviors
The Worshipful Company of Paviors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Paviors were formed at some point prior to 1276; they were responsible for the paving and maintenance of London's streets. It received a Royal Charter in 1672...

C836
08-May 2004 Society for the Environment
Society for the Environment
The Society for the Environment is an umbrella body that can license its member institutions to confer chartered status on sustainability and environmental professionals worldwide...

C832
27-Jul 2004 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain C826
13-Oct 2004 The Association for Science Education C816
16-Dec 2004 The Arts and Humanities Research Council
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Established in April 2005 as successor to the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Arts and Humanities Research Council is a British Research Council and non-departmental public body that provides approximately £102 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the...

C892
09-Feb 2005 The Chartered Institute of Public Relations
Chartered Institute of Public Relations
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations is the professional body for PR practitioners in the United Kingdom. Founded in February 1948 as the Institute of Public Relations, by 2009 it had grown to over 9000 members involved in all aspects of the public relations industry, and is the largest...

C383
07-May 2005 The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators
Worshipful Company of Water Conservators
The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. In 1988, some members of the Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers , who were also members of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management decided to found the Guild of Water...

C850
07-May 2005 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists represents over 9,000 professionals working and studying in the field of Architectural Technology...

C746
19-Jul 2005 The Chartered Institute of Linguists
Chartered Institute of Linguists
The Chartered Institute of Linguists, also known as the Institute of Linguists, IOL and IoL , is a British professional and learned society for education that was founded in 1910. It serves to promote proficiency in modern languages worldwide...

19/09/2006 C616
14-Dec 2005 The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
The Duke of Edinburgh's Award , is a programme of activities that can be undertaken by anyone aged 14 to 24, regardless of personal ability....

31/03/2006 C856
19-Jul 2006 The Chartered Quality Institute 23/11/2006 C475
19-Jul 2006 Elizabeth Phillips Hughes Hall, Cambridge Commonly known as Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Hughes Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It is often informally called Hughes, and is the oldest of the four Cambridge colleges which admit only mature students...

23/11/2006 C862
05-Sep 2006 English Association
English Association
The English Association is a British association dedicated to furthering the study of English language and literature in schools, higher education institutes and amongst the public in general....

01/12/2006 C846
10-Oct 2006 The Historical Association 15/12/2006 C863
14-Nov 2006 The Royal Institute of Navigation
Royal Institute of Navigation
The Royal Institute of Navigation is a British institution devoted to the art and science of navigation established in 1947.Its aims are to bring navigators together, to develop navigational techniques and to increase public awareness of navigation. It is based in Kensington, London. It was...

22/02/2007 C865
14-Nov 2006 Wokingham Borough 01/03/2007
07-Feb 2007 The Technology Strategy Board
Technology Strategy Board
The Technology Strategy Board is a UK public body operating at arm's length from the Government reporting to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills .- History :...

27/03/2007 C872
07-Feb 2007 The Science and Technology Facilities Council
Science and Technology Facilities Council
The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy .-History:It was formed in April 2007 as a merger of the Particle...

27/03/2007 C901
25-Jul 2007 The Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors 02/04/2008 C861
25-Jul 2007 The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants 04/10/2007 C877
10-Oct 2007 The Worshipful Company of International Bankers C866
10-Oct 2007 The Society for Radiological Protection 10/12/2007 C833
12-Dec 2007 The College of Emergency Medicine 20/02/2008 C822
12-Feb 2008 The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering 30/06/2008 C864
12-Feb 2008 The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators 24/06/2008 C871
11-Jun 2008 The Royal Society for Public Health 23/10/2008 C907
09-Jul 2008 The King's Fund 04/11/2008 C881
10-Dec 2008 Cheshire West and Chester Borough 01/04/2009
10-Dec 2008 West Lancashire Borough 20/05/2009
10-Dec 2008 Cheshire East Borough 01/04/2009
18-Mar 2009 Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors 02/09/2009 C582
13-May 2009 The Worshipful Company of Actuaries
Worshipful Company of Actuaries
The Worshipful Company of Actuaries is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was founded and became a Livery Company in 1979, on the same day as the Insurers' Company...

04/09/2009 C904
08-Jul 2009 The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers
Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers
The Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers is a Livery Company of the City of London. It was started as a Guild of the City of London by some members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 1995 and became a Company without Livery in 2000. On 18 January 2005, the Court of Aldermen granted the...

09/10/2009 C880
08-Jul 2009 Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment C913
15-Oct 2009 Worshipful Company of Security Professionals
Worshipful Company of Security Professionals
The Worshipful Company of Security Professionals ' is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The company is a charitable organization providing education and health services to members of the security professional community....

15/02/2010 C917
15-Oct 2009 The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation is a learned society concerned specifically with the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of land-based transport systems and infrastructure.With over 11,500 members, the CIHT offers routes to qualifications such as...

07/12/2009 C124
17-Nov 2009 The Principal, Fellows and Scholars of Homerton College in the University of Cambridge Known as Homerton College 11/03/2010 C915
10-Feb 2010 The Worshipful Company of Constructors
Worshipful Company of Constructors
The Worshipful Company of Constructors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company aims to bring together those professionally qualified individuals concerned with aspects of building design, execution, management, vision and economic appraisal.The Company's origins date from...

27/04/2010 C919
10-Feb 2010 The Worshipful Company of Launderers
Worshipful Company of Launderers
The Worshipful Company of Launderers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation, founded in 1960, became a Livery Company in 1977. The Company promotes the profession of the launderers by awarding scholarships to laundry students....

17/06/2010 C923
10-Feb 2010 Institute of Internal Auditors - UK and Ireland 24/06/2010 C914
10-Feb 2010 Worshipful Company of Information Technologists
Worshipful Company of Information Technologists
The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists , aka the Information Technologists' Company , is the 100th Livery Company of the City of London...

16/06/2010 C903
17-Mar 2010 The Firefighters Memorial Trust 04/10/2010 C920
12-Apr 2010 The Worshipful Company of Marketors
Worshipful Company of Marketors
The Worshipful Company of Marketors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was founded in 1975. It became a Livery Company in 1978. It supports marketing by awarding scholarships in the field....

22/09/2010 C918
21-Jul 2010 Basildon Council 990(318)
21-Jul 2010 The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners
Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners
The Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was established in 1972 as the Guild of Cleaners, and was later known as the Guild of Master Cleaners. The Guild became a Livery Company in 1986, changing its name again, this time to the...

C927

15th century

  • 4 December 1416 Cutlers' Company
    Worshipful Company of Cutlers
    The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The trade of knife making and repairing was organised in the thirteenth century; the organisation received a Royal Charter later in 1416...

  • 16 February 1428 Grocers' Company
  • 22 February 1437 Brewers' Company
  • 23 August 1437 Vintners' Company
  • 26 April 1439 Cordwainers' Company
  • 1441 King's College, Cambridge
    King's College, Cambridge
    King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

  • 1444 Leathersellers' Company
  • 8 May 1453 Armourers' and Brasiers' Company
  • 13 October 1457 Magdalen College, Oxford
    Magdalen College, Oxford
    Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

  • 8 March 1462 Tallow Chandlers' Company
  • 1462 Barbers' Company
  • 20 March 1463 Ironmongers' Company
  • 16 February 1471 Dyers' Company
  • 20 January 1473 Pewterers' Company
  • 1474 Corporation of Blacksmith's of Dublin
  • 16 August 1475 St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
  • 7 July 1477 Carpenters' Company
  • 16 February 1483 Wax Chandlers' Company
  • 1496 Jesus College, Cambridge
    Jesus College, Cambridge
    Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...


1500-1549

  • 10 March 1501 Plaisterers' Company
  • 29 April 1501 Coopers' Company
  • 23 February 1504 Poulters' Company
  • 2 July 1509 Bakers' Company
  • 9 April 1511 St John's College, Cambridge
    St John's College, Cambridge
    St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's alumni include nine Nobel Prize winners, six Prime Ministers, three archbishops, at least two princes, and three Saints....

  • 15 January 1512 Brasenose College, Oxford
    Brasenose College, Oxford
    Brasenose College, originally Brazen Nose College , is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As of 2006, it has an estimated financial endowment of £98m...

  • 1513 Nottingham High School
    Nottingham High School
    Nottingham High School is a British boys' independent school situated about a mile north of Nottingham city centre. It has around 900 pupils from ages 11 to 18 and there is the adjoining Nottingham High Junior School catering for younger boys and, from September 2008, the Lovell House...

  • 1517 Corpus Christi College, Oxford
    Corpus Christi College, Oxford
    Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...

  • 23 September 1518 Royal College of Physicians of London
  • 18 January 1528 Clothworkers' Company
  • 1532 Bristol Grammar School
    Bristol Grammar School
    Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England. The school was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne....

  • 25 August 1537 Honourable Artillery Company
    Honourable Artillery Company
    The Honourable Artillery Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII. Today it is a Registered Charity whose purpose is to attend to the “better defence of the realm"...

  • 1539 Colchester Royal Grammar School
    Colchester Royal Grammar School
    Colchester Royal Grammar School is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in AD 1206 and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII and by Elizabeth I .-Admissions:...

     (Granted a second Charter by Elizabeth I, see below)
  • 1541 King's School, Ely
  • 1542 Magdalene College, Cambridge
    Magdalene College, Cambridge
    Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...

  • 23 July 1545 King Henry VIII School, Coventry
  • 1545 Warwick School
    Warwick School
    Warwick School is an independent school with boarding facilities for boys in Warwick, England, and is reputed to be the third-oldest surviving school in the country after King's School, Canterbury and St Peter's School, York; and the oldest boy's school in England...

  • 1547 Trinity College, Cambridge
    Trinity College, Cambridge
    Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

  • 1547 Norwich School, Norwich
  • 13 January 1547 Bethlem Hospital
  • 13 January 1547 Saint Bartholomew's Hospital
  • 1549 Pembroke College, Cambridge
    Pembroke College, Cambridge
    Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its...


1550-1599

  • 13 May 1550 Sherborne School
    Sherborne School
    Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

  • 1550 French Protestant Church of London
    French Protestant Church of London
    The French Protestant Church of London is a Huguenot Protestant church in Soho Square, London. It is a registered charity under English law....

  • 14 May 1552 Sedbergh School
    Sedbergh School
    Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is known for sporting sides, such as its Rugby Union 1st XV.-Background:...

  • 17 June 1552 King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge
  • 12 July 1552 King Edward's School, Bath
    King Edward's School, Bath
    King Edward's School , Bath, Somerset, England is an independent school providing education for 950 pupils aged 3 to 18.The school is a member of The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

  • 18 December 1552 Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol
  • 1552 Bedford School
    Bedford School
    Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Modern School or Bedford High School or Old Bedford School in Bedford, TexasBedford School is an HMC independent school for boys located in the town of Bedford, England, United Kingdom...

  • 1552 King Edward's School, Birmingham
    King Edward's School, Birmingham
    King Edward's School is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham, and is widely regarded as one of the most academically successful schools in the country, according to...

  • 1552 The King's School, Macclesfield
    The King's School, Macclesfield
    -Notable former pupils:* Peter Moores, ex-England Cricket Coach* Rev. Thomas Taylor, priest and historian* Alan Beith, politician* Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News...

  • 26 May 1553 Giggleswick School
    Giggleswick School
    Giggleswick School is an independent co-educational boarding school in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England.- Early school :...

  • 26 June 1553 Bridewell Hospital
  • 26 June 1553 Christ's Hospital
    Christ's Hospital
    Christ's Hospital is an English coeducational independent day and boarding school with Royal Charter located in the Sussex countryside just south of Horsham in Horsham District, West Sussex, England...

  • 1553 King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton
  • 1553 Tonbridge School
    Tonbridge School
    Tonbridge School is a British boys' independent school for both boarding and day pupils in Tonbridge, Kent, founded in 1553 by Sir Andrew Judd . It is a member of the Eton Group, and has close links with the Worshipful Company of Skinners, one of the oldest London livery companies...

  • 6 January 1554 Boston Grammar School
    Boston Grammar School
    The Boston Grammar School is a selective grammar school and sixth form college for boys aged 11 to 18 and girls attending the sixth form aged 16–18 located in Boston, Lincolnshire, England....

    , Lincolnshire
    Lincolnshire
    Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

  • 1554 Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
    Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Clitheroe Royal Grammar School is a co-educational secondary school in Clitheroe, Lancashire that used to be an all boys school...

  • 1554 Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall
  • 15 July 1555 College of Arms
    College of Arms
    The College of Arms, or Heralds’ College, is an office regulating heraldry and granting new armorial bearings for England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

  • 1555 St. John's College, Oxford
  • 7 July 1556 Charity of the Priest and Poor of Ginge Petre in the County of Essex
  • 4 May 1557 Stationers' Company
  • 5 July 1558 Brentwood School
    Brentwood School (England)
    Brentwood School is an independent school in Brentwood, Essex, England. Educating boys and girls in a British public school tradition. Brentwood School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

  • 21 May 1560 Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster
  • 28 February 1561 Royal Grammar School Worcester
    Royal Grammar School Worcester
    The Royal Grammar School Worcester is an independent coeducational school in Worcester, United Kingdom. Founded before 1291, it is one of the oldest British independent schools....

  • 1561 Kingston Grammar School
    Kingston Grammar School
    Kingston Grammar School is an independent co-educational school in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. The school was founded by Royal Charter in 1561 but can trace its roots back to at least the 13th century. It is a registered charity under English law....

    , Kingston upon Thames
    Kingston upon Thames
    Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. It was the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned and is now a suburb situated south west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the...

  • 25 October 1561 Broderers' Company
  • 1562 St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School
  • 15 June 1563 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
    Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College
    Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, or QE, is a sixth form college on Vane Terrace in Darlington, County Durham, England.-History:It was established in 1970 on the site of the old Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, designed by George Gordon Hoskins...

    , Darlington
    Darlington
    Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, part of the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It lies on the small River Skerne, a tributary of the River Tees, not far from the main river. It is the main population centre in the borough, with a population of 97,838 as of 2001...

  • 1565 Exeter College, Oxford
    Exeter College, Oxford
    Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...

  • 1565 Highgate School
    Highgate School
    -Notable members of staff and governing body:* John Ireton, brother of Henry Ireton, Cromwellian General* 1st Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, owner of Kenwood, noted for judgment finding contracts for slavery unenforceable in English law* T. S...

  • 1567 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Blackburn, Lancashire, founded in 1509 as a boys' school. The term "school" is usually used to collectively refer to the following:...

  • 3 August 1568 Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company
  • 12 October 1568 Girdlers' Company
  • 14 April 1570 Joiners' Company
  • 1571 Blacksmiths' Company
  • 1571 Harrow School
    Harrow School
    Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...

  • 27 June 1571 Jesus College, Oxford
    Jesus College, Oxford
    Jesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...

  • 9 February 1573 University College, Oxford
    University College, Oxford
    .University College , is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2009 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £110m...

  • 1574 Cranbrook School, Kent
    Cranbrook School, Kent
    Cranbrook School is a co-educational boarding and day grammar school located in Cranbrook, Kent in South East England.-Brief history:Founded in 1518 for poor boys of the town, it received a charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1574. Although in 1817 the town petitioned the Master of the Rolls,...

  • 1576 Sutton Valence School
    Sutton Valence School
    Sutton Valence School is an English independent school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has about 520 pupils. It is a co-educational school with a boarding option . The three boarding houses are Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutton and, for those in the first and second form, Beresford...

  • 19 June 1578 Haberdashers' Company
  • 19 July 1581 Painter-Stainers' Company
  • 1584 Colchester Royal Grammar School
    Colchester Royal Grammar School
    Colchester Royal Grammar School is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in AD 1206 and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII and by Elizabeth I .-Admissions:...

  • 1584 Uppingham School
    Uppingham School
    Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school of the English public school tradition, situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England...

  • 1585 Queen's College, Oxford
  • 1591 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
    Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
    Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is an independent school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. QEGS is distinct from most other schools in that it was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield 75 in total and some of whom formed the...

  • 1592 Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol
  • 1594 Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
    Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
    Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance...

  • 3 May 1597 Hospital of St. John the Evangelist and St. Anne in Oakham

17th century

  • 22 March 1600 Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
    Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
    Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally and often abbreviated as RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It gained its Royal Charter under Queen Elizabeth I...

  • 1603 Oriel College, Oxford
  • 1603 Hostmen Company of Freemen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • 30 August 1603 Fishmongers' Company
  • 17 December 1603 Bishop Auckland Grammar School
  • 2 August 1604 Feltmakers' Company
  • 16 September 1605 Butchers' Company
  • 18 September 1605 Gardeners' Company
  • 9 January 1606 Fruiterers' Company
  • 19 January 1606 Drapers Company
  • 30 April 1606 Curriers' Company
  • 15 May 1607 Salters' Company
  • 24 November 1609 King James School, Almondbury

1610s

  • 12 April 1611 Plumbers' Company
  • 22 June 1611 Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse
    London Charterhouse
    The London Charterhouse is a historic complex of buildings in Smithfield, London dating back to the 14th century. It occupies land to the north of Charterhouse Square. The Charterhouse began as a Carthusian priory, founded in 1371 and dissolved in 1537...

  • 20 December 1611 Wadham College, Oxford
    Wadham College, Oxford
    Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road in central Oxford. It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I...

  • 13 September 1612 Don Baudains (Jersey)
  • 1613 Honourable Irish Society
    The Honourable The Irish Society
    The Honourable The Irish Society is the organisation created by royal charter consisting of members nominated by livery companies of the City of London, set up to colonise County Londonderry during the plantation of Ulster. Notably it was involved in the construction of the city of Londonderry,...

  • 18 September 1614 Founders' Company
  • 1615 Wilson's Grammar School
  • 28 January 1617 Scriveners' Company
  • 6 December 1617 Society of Apothecaries of London
  • 21 June 1619 Dulwich College
    Dulwich College
    Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, southeast London, England. The college was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift". It currently has about 1,600 boys,...


1620s

  • 1621 Bowyers' Company
  • 1624 Pembroke College, Oxford
    Pembroke College, Oxford
    Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square. As of 2009, Pembroke had an estimated financial endowment of £44.9 million.-History:...

  • 14 June 1626 Upholders' Company
  • 22 October 1628 Playing Card Makers' Company
  • 16 May 1629 Spectacle Makers' Company

1630s

  • 3 July 1630 Sion College
    Sion College
    Sion College, in London, is an institution founded by Royal Charter in 1630 as a college, guild of parochial clergy and almshouse, under the 1623 will of Thomas White, vicar of St Dunstan's in the West....

  • 8 July 1631 Sackville College
    Sackville College
    Sackville College is a Jacobean almshouse in town of East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.It was founded in 1609 with money left by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset...

    , East Grinstead
    East Grinstead
    East Grinstead is a town and civil parish in the northeastern corner of Mid Sussex, West Sussex in England near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders. It lies south of London, north northeast of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester...

  • 22 August 1631 Clockmakers' Company
  • 14 March 1637 Gunmakers' Company
  • 12 January 1638 Horners' Company
  • 9 August 1638 Distillers' Company
    Worshipful Company of Distillers
    The Worshipful Company of Distillers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Distillers were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1638. They were empowered to regulate and supervise the production of spirits and liquors. Now, however, it does not retain such powers...

  • 6 November 1638 Glaziers' Company
  • 10 September 1639 The Company of Glovers of the City of London
  • 1639 Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks

1650s

  • 10 November 1656 Needlemakers' Company
  • 13 June 1657 Framework Knitters' Company

1660s

  • 28 November 1661 Glass Sellers' Company
  • 7 February 1662 New England Company
  • 15 July 1662 Royal Society
    Royal Society
    The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

  • 1662 Bradford Grammar School
    Bradford Grammar School
    Bradford Grammar School is a co-educational, independent school in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The school was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter by King Charles II in 1662...

  • 16 February 1663 Cooks' Company
  • 21 December 1663 Innholders' Company
  • 30 June 1664 Royal Scottish Corporation
  • 18 May 1666 Broadweavers and Clothiers Company of Coventry

1670s

  • 3 February 1670 Wheelwrights' Company
  • 2 May 1670 Hudson's Bay Company
    Hudson's Bay Company
    The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

  • 2 August 1670 Pattenmakers' Company
  • 29 December 1670 Tin Plate Workers' Company
  • 18 November 1672 Trinity House in Kingston-upon-Hull
  • 17 January 1674 Farriers' Company
  • 31 May 1677 Coachmakers' Company
  • 17 December 1677 Masons' Company
  • 1 July 1678 Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
    Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
    The Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy is a charity founded in 1655 which provides financial support to clergy of the Church of England.The Corporation was established in 1655 in response to the distress of the large number of clergymen who were dispossessed of their livings under the regime of...


1680s

  • 19 October 1681 Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh
  • 8 July 1685 Corporation of the Trinity House
    Trinity House
    The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond is the official General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales and other British territorial waters...

     of Deptford Strond

1690s

  • 8 February 1693 The College of William & Mary
  • 16 June 1693 Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers' Company
  • 27 July 1694 Bank of England
    Bank of England
    The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...

  • 25 October 1694 The Royal Hospital, Greenwich

18th century

  • 16 June 1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
  • 19 April 1706 Grey Coat Hospital in Tothill Fields of the Foundation of Queen Anne

1710s

  • 23 May 1711 Blanket Weavers in Witney, Oxfordshire
  • 3 December 1711 Loriners' Company
  • 29 July 1714 Worcester College, Oxford
    Worcester College, Oxford
    Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...

  • 24 July 1718 French Protestant Hospital
  • 27 July 1719 Music Society for Carrying on Operas and other entertainments

1720s

  • 22 June 1720 London Assurance Corporation
  • 22 June 1720 Royal Exchange Assurance
  • 1727 The Royal Bank of Scotland
  • 31 July 1729 Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Halifax

1740s

  • 28 April 1741 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Norwich and Norfolk
  • 13 April 1742 Charity for the Relief of the Widows and Children of the Clergy of Suffolk
  • 5 July 11 October British Linen Bank
    British Linen Bank
    The British Linen Bank was a commercial bank based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was acquired by the Bank of Scotland in 1969 and served as the Bank's merchant bank arm from 1977 until 1999.-Foundation:...

  • 29 April 1747 Governors of the Charity for the relief of the poor Widows and Orphans of Beneficed Clergymen or having Curacys in the County of Essex the Deanery of Braughing and Archdeaconry of St. Albans, County of Hertford and Diocese of London

1750s

  • 2 November 1751 Society of Antiquaries of London
    Society of Antiquaries of London
    The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...

  • 9 December 1758 London Hospital

1770s

  • 19 June 1773 Carron Company
    Carron Company
    The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland. After initial problems, the company was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom. The company prospered through its development and...

  • 1773 Royal Medical Society
    Royal Medical Society
    The Royal Medical Society is the oldest medical society in the United Kingdom . Known originally as 'the Medical Society' when it was established in 1737, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1778...

  • 27 January 1774 Society of Advocates in Aberdeen

1780s

  • 24 March 1781 Governors of the possessions etc. of the Free Chapel of Hindon within the parish of East Knoyle, Wiltshire
  • 29 March 1783 Royal Society of Edinburgh
    Royal Society of Edinburgh
    The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...

  • 6 May 1783 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
    Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
    The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body in Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh...

  • 9 June 1783 Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
  • 10 July 1786 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures
  • 17 May 1787 Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
    Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
    The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland was founded in Edinburgh in 1784 as the Highland Society of Edinburgh. The Society was formed 2 years after the repeal of the Dress Act of 1746, at a time when there was renewed interest in Highland culture.The Society is responsible for...


1790s

  • 26 August 1790 Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain
  • 21 December 1791 Glasgow Royal Infirmary
    Glasgow Royal Infirmary
    The Glasgow Royal Infirmary is a large teaching hospital, operated by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde,. With a capacity of around 1000 beds, the hospital campus covers an area of around 20 acres, situated on the north-eastern edge of the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.-History:Designed by Robert...

  • 9 January 1792 Society for the Benefit of Sons and Daughters of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland
  • 30 October 1794 Christian Faith Society
  • 6 June 1796 Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
    Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
    The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow is a professional body of legal practitioners based in Glasgow and providing services to lawyers in the city and the surrounding area...

  • 24 January 1797 Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
    Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland
    The Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland is a professional association of solicitors in Scotland representing those lawyers who practice in and around the College of Justice...

  • 28 June 1798 Ayr Academy
    Ayr Academy
    Ayr Academy is a non-denominational secondary school situated in the centre of the town of Ayr in South Ayrshire. It is a comprehensive school for children from the ages of 11 to 18 from Ayr. Ayr Academy's catchment area covers Newton-on-Ayr, Whitletts and the outlying villages of Coylton, Annbank,...


19th century

  • 13 January 1800 Royal Institution of Great Britain
  • 22 March 1800 Royal College of Surgeons of England
    Royal College of Surgeons of England
    The Royal College of Surgeons of England is an independent professional body and registered charity committed to promoting and advancing the highest standards of surgical care for patients, regulating surgery, including dentistry, in England and Wales...

  • 22 September 1800 Downing College, Cambridge
    Downing College, Cambridge
    Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1800 and currently has around 650 students.- History :...


19th century

  • 19 April 1801 James Gillespie's Hospital and Free School
  • 26 March 1802 Linnean Society of London
    Linnean Society of London
    The Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...

  • 12 May 1802 University of King's College
    University of King's College
    The University of King's College is a post-secondary institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. King's is a small liberal arts university offering mainly undergraduate programs....

    , Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia
    Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

  • 7 April 1807 Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
    Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary
    Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is the main hospital in Dumfries. The hospital serves both the town of Dumfries and the entire catchment area of South West Scotland, with a population of at least 147,000...

  • 17 April 1809 Royal Horticultural Society
    Royal Horticultural Society
    The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 in London, England as the Horticultural Society of London, and gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861 by Prince Albert...


1810s

  • 23 May 1817 National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales
  • 13 January 1818 Royal Edinburgh Public Dispensary
  • 19 May 1818 Royal Literary Fund
    Royal Literary Fund
    The Royal Literary Fund is a benevolent fund set up to help published British writers in financial difficulties. It was founded by Reverend David Williams in 1790 and has received bequests and donations, including royal patronage, ever since...

  • 8 May 1819 Dundee Royal Infirmary
    Dundee Royal Infirmary
    Dundee Royal Infirmary, often shortened to DRI was a major teaching hospital in Dundee, Scotland. Until the opening of Ninewells Hospital in 1974, Dundee Royal Infirmary was Dundee’s main hospital...


1820s

  • 1820 Faculty of Procurators and Solicitors in Dundee
  • 31 March 1821 McGill University
    McGill University
    Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

    , Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

  • 6 February 1824 Edinburgh Academy
    Edinburgh Academy
    The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school which was opened in 1824. The original building, in Henderson Row on the northern fringe of the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of the Senior School...

  • 11 August 1824 Royal Asiatic Society
    Royal Asiatic Society
    The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society...

  • 14 October 1824 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
    Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
    The Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society is the national horticultural society of Scotland, and was founded in 1809. It is based in Edinburgh and meets at the Royal Botanic Garden....

  • 1 November 1824 Australian Agricultural Company
    Australian Agricultural Company
    The Australian Agricultural Company is a company which serves to improve beef cattle production through responsible natural resource and land use...

  • 9 December 1824 Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital
  • 23 April 1825 Geological Society of London
    Geological Society of London
    The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"...

  • 15 September 1825 Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
  • 10 November 1825 Van Diemen's Land Company
    Van Diemen's Land Company
    The Van Diemen's Land Company was created in 1824, received a Royal Charter in 1825, and was granted 250,000 acres in northwest Tasmania in 1826...

  • 28 June 1826 University Life Assurance Society
  • 15 March 1827 University of Toronto
    University of Toronto
    The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...

  • 2 August 1827 Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund
  • 6 February 1828 St David's College
    University of Wales, Lampeter
    University of Wales, Lampeter is a university in Lampeter, Wales. Founded in 1822 by royal charter, it is the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales and may be the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge...

    , Lampeter
    Lampeter
    Lampeter is a town in Ceredigion, South West Wales, lying at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas.-Demographics:At the 2001 National Census, the population was 2894. Lampeter is therefore the smallest university town in both Wales and the United Kingdom...

  • 3 June 1828 Institution of Civil Engineers
    Institution of Civil Engineers
    Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150...

  • 27 March 1829 Zoological Society of London
    Zoological Society of London
    The Zoological Society of London is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats...

  • 14 August 1829 King's College London
    King's College London
    King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...


1830s

  • 18 January 1830 General Lying-in Hospital
    General Lying-In Hospital
    The General Lying-In Hospital was opened in April, 1767, as the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, on the north side of Westminster Bridge Road Lambeth with Dr. John Leake as its first physician....

  • 23 June 1830 Royal Academy of Music
    Royal Academy of Music
    The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

  • 7 March 1831 Royal Astronomical Society
    Royal Astronomical Society
    The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...

  • 6 August 1832 Cambridge Philosophical Society
    Cambridge Philosophical Society
    The Cambridge Philosophical Society is a scientific society at University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research undertaken outside the fields of theology and medicine...

  • 30 September 1834 Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
  • 3 May 1836 Society of Licensed Victuallers
  • 28 November 1836 University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

  • 11 January 1837 Royal Institute of British Architects
    Royal Institute of British Architects
    The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally.-History:...

  • 1 June 1837 University of Durham
    Durham University
    The University of Durham, commonly known as Durham University, is a university in Durham, England. It was founded by Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837...

  • 7 June 1837 Company of Stationers of Glasgow
  • 26 April 1838 Royal Naval Benevolent Society
  • 13 August 1838 Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture
  • 26 August 1839 Mauritius Commercial Bank
    Mauritius Commercial Bank
    Mauritius Commercial Bank , founded in 1838, is the oldest and largest banking institution of Mauritius. It is also the oldest banking institution south of the Sahara and one of the oldest banks of the Commonwealth to have preserved its original name...


1840s

  • 26 March 1840 Royal Agricultural Society of England
  • 29 January 1840 Pacific Steam Navigation Company
    Pacific Steam Navigation Company
    The Pacific Steam Navigation Company was a commercial shipping company that operated in the Pacific coast of South America, and was the first to use steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean.-History:...

  • 1 August 1840 Society of Solicitors of Banffshire
  • 10 November 1840 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
    Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
    The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which is usually known as P&O, is a British shipping and logistics company which dated from the early 19th century. Following its sale in March 2006 to Dubai Ports World for £3.9 billion, it became a subsidiary of DP World; however, the P&O...

  • 16 March 1841 Bank of Australasia
  • 16 October 1841 Queen's University
    Queen's University
    Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...

     at Kingston, Ontario
  • 16 March 1842 McLachlan's Free School
  • 30 June 1842 Artists General Benevolent Institution
  • 15 December 1842 Licensed Victuallers Asylum
  • 18 February 1843 Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • 3 April 1843 Royal Grammar School Worcester
    Royal Grammar School Worcester
    The Royal Grammar School Worcester is an independent coeducational school in Worcester, United Kingdom. Founded before 1291, it is one of the oldest British independent schools....

  • 27 April 1843 Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses Worcester
  • 18 January 1844 Ionian Bank
    Ionian Bank
    The Ionian Bank was a British overseas bank that investors established in 1839 to operate in the Ionian Isles, which was then a British Protectorate. The bank later expanded in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. After losing its branches in Egypt to nationalization, IB retreated from the...

  • 8 March 1844 Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
    Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
    The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is the regulatory body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom. Established in 1844 by Royal Charter, its statutory duties are laid out in the 1966 Veterinary Surgeons Act.-Role:...

  • 26 February 1845 Law Society
    Law society
    A Law Society in current and former Commonwealth jurisdictions was historically an association of solicitors with a regulatory role that included the right to supervise the training, qualifications and conduct of lawyers/solicitors...

  • 21 August 1845 Marlborough College
    Marlborough College
    Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. Currently there are just over 800...

  • 13 January 1845 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada
  • 30 June 1845 Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
    Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
    The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes was a Victorian-era, philanthropically-motivated Model Dwellings Company, a fore-runner of the modern housing association which sought to provide affordable housing for the working classes on a privately-run basis,...

  • 1845 Queen's College of Belfast (now Queen's University Belfast)
  • 3 February 1847 Royal Society of British Artists
    Royal Society of British Artists
    The Royal Society of British Artists is a British art body established in 1823 as the Society of British Artists, as an alternative to the Royal Academy.-History:...

  • 20 May 1847 Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. (Royal Society of Arts)
  • 17 July 1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
    Eastern Archipelago Company
    The Eastern Archipelago Company was an incorporated company with a royal charter active in the island of Labuan from its creation in 1847 to its dissolution in 1858....

  • 8 May 1848 Governesses Benevolent Institution
  • 27 June 1848 Missionary College of Saint Augustine Canterbury
  • 4 September 1848 Chemical Society
    Chemical Society
    The Chemical Society was formed in 1841 as a result of increased interest in scientific matters....

  • 16 December 1848 College of Preceptors
  • 1 March 1849 Warneford Lunatic Asylum (Oxford)
  • 30 July 1849 Royal British Bank
    Royal British Bank
    The Royal British Bank was a British joint-stock bank, established under a Royal Charter in 1849, that collapsed in 1856, causing a scandal.In 1858 the eight directors — not including the bank's founder, John MacGregor, Member of Parliament for Glasgow, who had left the bank in 1854 and died in...


1850s

  • 14 August 1850 Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
  • 12 December 1850 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
    Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
    The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is an organisation dedicated to the pursuit of excellence and advancement in surgical practice, through its interest in education, training and examinations, its liaison with external medical bodies and representation of the modern surgical workforce...

  • 5 May 1851 Educational Institute of Scotland
    Educational Institute of Scotland
    The Educational Institute of Scotland is the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, having been founded in 1847 when dominies became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of education in Scotland on their professional status....

  • 23 October 1851 Falkland Islands Company
  • 23 October 1851 Leith Chamber of Commerce
  • 16 July 1852 University of Trinity College
    University of Trinity College
    The University of Trinity College, informally referred to as Trin, is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1851 by Bishop John Strachan. Trinity was intended by Strachan as a college of strong Anglican alignment, after the University of Toronto severed its ties with the Church of...

    , Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

  • 8 December 1852 Université Laval
    Université Laval
    Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...

    , Quebec
    Quebec
    Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

  • 5 April 1852 General Theatrical Fund Association
  • 28 January 1853 Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec
    Lennoxville, Quebec
    Lennoxville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometers south of downtown Sherbrooke....

  • 13 December 1853 Wellington College
    Wellington College, Berkshire
    -Former pupils:Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher...

  • 13 June 1853 Council and Committee of Queen's College
  • 19 August 1853 Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
    Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China
    The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China was a bank founded in London in 1851/1853 by Scotsman James Wilson following the grant of a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria. It opened its first branches in 1858 in Calcutta and Bombay and then in 1863 in Karachi and Shanghai...

  • 7 April 1854 Marylebone Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
  • 7 April 1854 City of Worcester Association for Building Dwellings for the Labouring Classess
  • 13 September 1854 Society of Accountants in Edinburgh
  • 18 October 1854 London and Eastern Banking Corporation
  • 7 February 1857 Society of Procurators and Solicitors in the City and Country of Perth
  • 12 July 1857 Hospital for Women
  • 3 February 1858 University of Sydney
    University of Sydney
    The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...

  • 14 March 1859 University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • 11 January 1859 Royal Geographical Society
    Royal Geographical Society
    The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

  • 6 July 1859 Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors
  • 23 September 1859 National Benevolent Institution, founded by the late Peter Herve
  • 22 October 1859 High School of Dundee
    High School of Dundee
    The High School of Dundee is an independent, co-educational, day school in the city of Dundee, Scotland which provides both primary and secondary education to just over one thousand pupils...


1860s

  • 23 January 1860 Royal United Service Institution
  • 7 March 1860 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
    Royal National Lifeboat Institution
    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways....

     for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
  • 5 August 1861 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
    Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
    The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh was established in the 17th century. While the RCPE is based in Edinburgh, it is by no means just a Scottish professional body - more than half of its 7,700 Fellows, Members, Associates and Affiliates live and practice medicine outside Scotland, in 86...

  • 20 November 1861 Glasgow Art Union
  • 19 July 1862 Salisbury Infirmary
  • 1 November 1862 Asylum for Idiots
  • 1 November 1862 Saint Andrew's College, Bradfield
  • 3 February 1864 Dundee Chamber of Commerce
  • 3 February 1864 Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
    Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
    The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is an National Health Service hospital situated in Northfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. It specialises in bone and joint problems.-History:...

  • 3 February 1864 Society for Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men
  • 7 April 1864 Natal Native Trust
  • 9 July 1864 Friend of the Clergy
  • 9 July 1864 Albert Middle Class College in Suffolk
  • 28 July 1864 Haileybury College
  • 1 November 1864 Printers' Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation
  • 5 December 1865 Meteorological Society
  • 9 May 1866 Corporation for Middle Class Education in the Metropolis and the Suburbs thereof
  • 26 July 1866 Microscopical Society
  • 28 December 1866 Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences (Royal Albert Hall)
  • 26 February 1867 Preceptor, Patrons and Directors of Baillie's Institution in Glasgow
  • 4 November 1867 Association for the Protection of Commercial Interests as respects Wrecked and Damaged Property
  • 30 July 1868 Crossley Orphan Home and School
  • 14 September 1868 Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland

1870s

  • 4 June 1870 Keble College, Oxford
  • 6 July 1871 Incorporated Lay Body of the Church of England in Jamaica
  • 17 March 1875 Royal Veterinary College
    Royal Veterinary College
    The Royal Veterinary College is a veterinary school located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. The RVC was founded in 1791 and joined the University of London in 1949...

  • 13 May 1875 Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum
  • 23 October 1876 North England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
  • 7 February 1877 Clifton College
    Clifton College
    Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England, founded in 1862. In its early years it was notable for emphasising science in the curriculum, and for being less concerned with social elitism, e.g. by admitting day-boys on equal terms and providing a dedicated...

  • 11 July 1877 University of the Cape of Good Hope
    University of the Cape of Good Hope
    The University of the Cape of Good Hope, renamed the University of South Africa in 1916, was created by Act 16 of 1873 of the Cape of Good Hope Parliament. Modelled on the University of London, it offered examinations but not tuition, and had the power to confer degrees upon successful examination...


1880s

  • 18 March 1880 Victoria University (UK)
    Victoria University (UK)
    Victoria University was an English federal university established by Royal Charter, 20 April 1880 at Manchester: a university for the North of England open to affiliation by colleges such as Owens College which immediately did so. University College Liverpool joined the University in 1884, followed...

  • 24 March 1880 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • 2 March 1881 University of Adelaide
    University of Adelaide
    The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...

  • 15 July 1881 Surveyors' Institution
  • 31 July 1881 Royal College Colombo
    Royal College Colombo
    The Royal College of Colombo was founded in January 1835 in Colombo. It is considered to be the leading Public School in Sri Lanka...

    , Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

  • 26 August 1881 South Wales Institute of Engineers
    South Wales Institute of Engineers
    South Wales Institute of Engineers was founded in 1857 as a learned society for engineers and scientists in the area, arranging lectures and publishing the Proceedings of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. In 2007, the body was re-constituted as South Wales Institute of Engineers Educational...

  • 18 August 1882 Selwyn College, Cambridge
    Selwyn College, Cambridge
    Selwyn College is a constituent college in the University of Cambridge in England, United Kingdom.The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn , who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the...

  • 18 August 1882 Royal Colonial Institute
  • 20 April 1883 Royal College of Music
    Royal College of Music
    The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...

  • 23 August 1883 Charing Cross Hospital
    Charing Cross Hospital
    Charing Cross Hospital is a general, acute hospital located in London, United Kingdom and established in 1818. It is located several miles to the west of the city centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham....

  • 12 December 1883 Incorporated Society of Law Agents in Scotland
  • 26 June 1884 St. Paul's Hostel, Cambridge
  • 29 July 1884 Institute of Actuaries
    Institute of Actuaries
    The Institute of Actuaries was one of the two professional which represented actuaries in the United Kingdom . The Institute was based in England, while the other body, the Faculty of Actuaries, was based in Scotland...

  • 11 August 1884 University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire
  • 29 November 1884 Radcliffe Infirmary
    Radcliffe Infirmary
    The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street. The Radcliffe Infirmary, named after physician John Radcliffe, opened in 1770 and was Oxford's first hospital...

    , Oxford
  • 30 December 1884 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the separate or Cottage principle
  • 26 March 1885 University College of North Wales
  • 19 May 1885 Queen Charlotte's Lying in Hospital
  • 19 May 1885 Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
  • 24 June 1885 Entomological Society of London
  • 8 March 1886 Princess Helena College
    Princess Helena College
    Princess Helena College is an independent school for girls located in the small village of Preston near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. It is housed in a Grade II* listed Queen Anne country house, which was redesigned by Edwin Lutyens, at the same time as the gardens were designed by his great friend,...

  • 14 January 1887 Royal Statistical Society
    Royal Statistical Society
    The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...

  • 27 November 1887Belfast Royal Academy
    Belfast Royal Academy
    The Belfast Royal Academy is the oldest school in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a co-educational, non-denominational voluntary grammar school situated in north Belfast. The Academy is one of eight Northern Irish schools whose Headmaster is a member of the Headmasters' and...

  • 7 February 1888 Trustees of the Buchanan Bequest
  • 7 February 1888 Corporation of the Church House
  • 3 May 1888 Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England
  • 5 July 1889 Royal Historical Society
    Royal Historical Society
    The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...

  • 23 July 1889 University College of Wales
    University of Wales, Aberystwyth
    Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...

    , Aberystwyth (now the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
    University of Wales, Aberystwyth
    Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...

    )
  • 19 August 1889 Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
  • 19 August 1889 Imperial Bank of Persia
    Imperial Bank of Persia
    The Imperial Bank of Persia was an Iranian bank. It was established in 1885 with a concession from the government of Persia to Baron Julius De Reuter, under a Royal charter from Queen Victoria....

  • 15 October 1889 British South Africa Company
    British South Africa Company
    The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a royal charter in 1889...


1890s

  • 8 February 1890 Institute of Journalists
  • 21 October 1890 National Rifle Association
  • 21 October 1890 Rossall School
    Rossall School
    Rossall School is a British, co-educational, independent school, between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St. Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College which had been founded the previous year...

  • 21 October 1890 St. Peter's College, Radley
    Radley College
    Radley College , founded in 1847, is a British independent school for boys on the edge of the English village of Radley, near to the market town of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and has become a well-established boarding school...

  • 22 November 1890 Newspaper Press Fund
  • 9 May 1891 Royal Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen
  • 30 July 1891 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
    Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
    The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys is the British professional body of patent attorneys. It was founded in 1882 as the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891...

     (now the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
    Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
    The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys is the British professional body of patent attorneys. It was founded in 1882 as the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1891...

    )
  • 5 August 1892 Governors of the Buchanan Retreat
  • 16 May 1893 Royal British Nurses Association
  • 23 November 1893 University of Wales
    University of Wales
    The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...

  • 23 November 1893 Royal College of Organists
    Royal College of Organists
    The Royal College of Organists or RCO, is a charity and membership organisation based in the United Kingdom, but with members around the world...

  • 1894 West London Hospital
  • 11 May 1895 National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • 26 November 1897 Queen Victoria Clergy Fund
  • 17 February 1898 Library Association
    Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
    The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body representing librarians and other information professionals in the United Kingdom.-History:...

  • 19 May 1898 Corporation of the Cranleigh and Bramley Schools
  • 19 May 1898 Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada
  • 9 August 1898 Royal Blind Ayslum and School, Edinburgh
  • 7 March 1899 St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
    St. Andrew's Ambulance Association
    St Andrew's First Aid is a first aid charity based in Scotland. Founded in 1882, St Andrew's was Scotland's first ambulance service. Now a voluntary organisation it uses the brand "St Andrew's First Aid" and seeks to preserve the lives of people in Scotland by through the provision of education...

  • 14 July 1899 Grand Antiquity Society of Glasgow
  • 7 October 1899 British Home and Hospital for Incurables

20th century

  • 3 March 1900 University of Birmingham
    University of Birmingham
    The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...

  • 17 September 1900 City and Guilds of London Institute
    City and Guilds of London Institute
    The City and Guilds of London Institute is a leading United Kingdom vocational education organisation. City & Guilds offers more than 500 qualifications over the whole range of industry sectors through 8500 colleges and training providers in 81 countries worldwide...

  • 17 September 1900 Great Northern Central Hospital
  • 26 July 1902 British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies
  • 21 August 1902 Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
    The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland is a charitable trust established by Andrew Carnegie in 1901 for the benefit of the universities of Scotland, their students and their staff....

     (revised 1978)
  • 15 September 1902 Weavers Society of Anderston
  • 20 October 1902 Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Joint Stock Companies and other Public Bodies
    Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
    The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators is an international professional membership body and a recognised authority on corporate governance.-History:The organisation was founded in 1891 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1902...

  • 19 November 1902 Royal Economic Society
    Royal Economic Society
    The Royal Economic Society is incorporated by a Royal Charter dated 2 December 1902. It is one of the oldest economic associations in the world. Currently it has over 3,300 individual members, of whom 60% live outside the United Kingdom...

  • 16 February 1903 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables
  • 16 February 1903 Royal Society for Home Relief to Incurables, Edinburgh
  • 9 July 1903 Victoria University of Manchester
    Victoria University of Manchester
    The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...

  • 9 July 1903 University of Liverpool
    University of Liverpool
    The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...

  • 9 July 1903 Chartered Society of Queen Square
  • 10 August 1903 University College of Nottingham
    University of Nottingham
    The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

  • 11 February 1904 Royal Numismatic Society
    Royal Numismatic Society
    The Royal Numismatic Society is a learned society and charity based in London, United Kingdom which promotes research into all branches of numismatics...

  • 21 April 1904 University of Leeds
    University of Leeds
    The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

  • 15 July 1904 West India Committee
  • 10 August 1904 British Cotton Growing Association
  • 24 October 1904 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
    Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
    Bird Notes and News was first published in April 1903.The title changed to 'Bird Notes' in 1947. In the 1950s, there were four copies per year . Each volume covered two years, spread over three calendar years...

  • 29 May 1905 University of Sheffield
    University of Sheffield
    The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...

  • 11 July 1905 Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
    Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
    The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is a specialist orthopaedic hospital located in London, United Kingdom and a part of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust...

  • 11 May 1906 British and Foreign School Society
    British and Foreign School Society
    The British and Foreign School Society offers charitable aid to educational projects in the UK and around the world by funding schools, other charities and educational bodies...

  • 30 June 1906 Institute of Directors
    Institute of Directors
    The Institute of Directors is a UK-based organisation, established in 1903 and incorporated by royal charter in 1906 to support, represent and set standards for company directors...

  • 1 December 1906 Hull Royal Infirmary
    Hull Royal Infirmary
    Hull Royal Infirmary is one of the two main hospitals for Kingston upon Hull . It is situated on Anlaby Road, just outside of the city centre, and is run by Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust....

  • 11 February 1907 Royal Warrant Holders Association
  • 1 March 1907 National Museum of Wales
  • 1 March 1907 National Library of Wales
    National Library of Wales
    The National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...

  • 1 June 1907 Society of Chemical Industry
    Society of Chemical Industry
    The Society of Chemical Industry is a learned society set up in 1881 "to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit". Its purpose is "Promoting the commercial application of science for the benefit of society". Its first president was Henry Enfield Roscoe and...

  • 6 July 1907 Imperial College of Science and Technology
    Imperial College London
    Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...

  • 2 November 1907 Royal Society of South Africa
    Royal Society of South Africa
    The Royal Society of South Africa is a learned society composed of eminent South African scientists and academics. The Society was granted its royal charter by King Edward VII in 1908, nearly a century after Capetonians first began to conceive of a national scholarly society...

  • 21 December 1908 Bedford College for Women
  • 1 August 1908 British Red Cross Society
  • 17 May 1909 University of Bristol
    University of Bristol
    The University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...

  • 10 August 1909 Royal British Colonial Society of Artists

1910s

  • 22 April 1910 Cancer Hospital (Free)
  • 13 October 1910 Association of Deacons of the Fourteen Incorporated Trades of Glasgow
  • 28 November 1910 Institution of Naval Architects
  • 23 January 1911 Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association
  • 25 May 1911 Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
  • 16 December 1911 Scout Association
    The Scout Association
    The Scout Association is the World Organization of the Scout Movement recognised Scouting association in the United Kingdom. Scouting began in 1907 through the efforts of Robert Baden-Powell. The Scout Association was formed under its previous name, The Boy Scout Association, in 1910 by the grant...

  • 17 January 1912 Chartered Insurance Institute
    Chartered Insurance Institute
    The Chartered Insurance Institute is a United Kingdom based professional organisation for those working in the insurance and financial services industries....

  • 14 May 1912 King Edward the Seventh Welsh National Memorial Association
  • 14 June 1912 British School at Rome
    British School at Rome
    The British School at Rome was established in 1901 and granted a Royal Charter in 1912 as an educational institute in the fields of archaeology, literature, music, and history of Rome and Italy of every period, and for the study of the fine arts and architecture...

  • 16 December 1912 King Edward VII Sanatorium
  • 11 February 1913 Paton Trust
  • 24 June 1913 Zoological Society of Scotland
  • 7 October 1913 Royal West of England Academy
    Royal West of England Academy
    The Royal West of England Academy is an art gallery where Queens Road meets Whiteladies Road, in Bristol, England.- History :The Academy was the first art gallery in Bristol. Its foundation was financed by a bequest of £2000 in the will of Ellen Sharples in 1849, and a group of artists in...

  • 14 October 1913 Royal Asylum of Montrose
  • 14 October 1913 Montrose Royal Infirmary
  • 30 March 1914 Liverpool Merchants Guild
  • 7 January 1915 Institution of Mining Engineers
  • 7 January 1915 Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
    Institution of Mining and Metallurgy
    Institution of Mining and Metallurgy was a British research institution, founded in 1892.In 2002, it merged with The Institute of Materials to form the The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining...

  • 2 June 1915 University of Tasmania
    University of Tasmania
    The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...

  • 23 May 1916 School of Oriental Studies, London Institution
    London Institution
    The London Institution was an educational institution founded in London in 1806...

  • 7 September 1916 Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves
    Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
    The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts or RSWT is a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter to promote conservation and manage environmental funds...

  • 30 March 1917 Newnham College, Cambridge
    Newnham College, Cambridge
    Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1871 by Henry Sidgwick, and was the second Cambridge college to admit women after Girton College...

  • 10 May 1917 Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves, and places of commemoration, of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars...

    )
  • 19 May 1917 Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
    Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
    Carnegie United Kingdom Trust is a charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom, established by Scottish-born American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on the model of his U.S. foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York....

  • 27 November 1917 Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
  • 14 January 1919 Carnegie Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trustees
  • 24 February 1919 Incorporation of Cordiners in Glasgow
  • 15 April 1919 Representative Body of the Church in Wales
    Representative Body of the Church in Wales
    The Representative Body of the Church in Wales is an exempt charity responsible for holding assets on behalf of the Church in Wales....

  • 30 May 1919 Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney
  • 9 December 1919 Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
  • 9 December 1919 University College of Swansea
    Swansea University
    Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...

     (now Swansea University
    Swansea University
    Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...

    )
  • 20 December 1919 King George's Fund for Sailors
  • 20 December 1919 Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund

1920s

  • 11 March 1920 Leicester Royal Infirmary
    Leicester Royal Infirmary
    The Leicester Royal Infirmary is a large National Health Service hospital in Leicester, England. It is located to the south-west of the city centre. It has Leicester's accident and emergency department, and is part of the University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust.The hospital was originally...

  • 25 March 1920 Medical Research Council
    Medical Research Council (UK)
    The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

  • 25 March 1920 Forestry Commissioners
  • 17 May 1920 Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom
  • 17 May 1920 Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics
  • 28 June 1920 Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
    The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

  • 13 October 1920 St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
  • 10 June 1921 Officers' Association
  • 14 July 1921 Medical College of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City of London
  • 10 August 1921 Institution of Electrical Engineers
    Institution of Electrical Engineers
    The Institution of Electrical Engineers was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers. The I.E.E...

  • 11 October 1921 Empire Forestry Association
  • 11 October 1921 Empire Cotton Growing Corporation
  • 7 November 1921 Institute of British Foundrymen
  • 13 December 1921 Royal Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution
  • 6 February 1922 Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • 3 March 1922 Royal Victoria College, Montreal
  • 3 March 1922 Over-Seas League
  • 1 April 1922 Royal Naval Benevolent Trust (Grand Fleet and Kindred Funds)
  • 5 May 1922 Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
  • 20 June 1922 St. John's Foundation School
  • 10 August 1922 College of Estate Management
  • 6 December 1922 Toc H
    Toc H
    Toc H is an international Christian movement. The name is an abbreviation for Talbot House, 'Toc' signifying the letter T in the signals spelling alphabet used by the British Army in World War I. A soldiers' rest and recreation centre named Talbot House was founded in December 1915 at Poperinghe,...

     (Incorporated)
  • 6 December 1922 Girl Guides Association
  • 29 January 1923 Institution of Royal Engineers
  • 12 March 1923 British Institute of Florence
    British Institute of Florence
    The British Institute of Florence is a cultural institute founded in 1917 in Florence, Italy, with the aim of promoting Anglo-Italian cultural relations, teaching English and Italian languages, and running a Library of English books to illustrate British and Italian literature, art, history and music...

  • 4 May 1923 Confederation of British Industry
    Confederation of British Industry
    The Confederation of British Industry is a British not for profit organisation incorporated by Royal charter which promotes the interests of its members, some 200,000 British businesses, a figure which includes some 80% of FTSE 100 companies and around 50% of FTSE 350 companies.-Role:The CBI works...

  • 4 May 1923 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Hospital
  • 26 June 1923 Cardiff Royal Infirmary
  • 11 October 1923 Dover College
    Dover College
    Dover College is a co-educational independent school in Dover in southeast England. It was founded in 1871, and takes both day pupils and boarders....

  • 21 March 1924 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 25 June 1924 Royal Life Saving Society
  • 25 July 1924 Girton College, Cambridge
    Girton College, Cambridge
    Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. It was England's first residential women's college, established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon. The full college status was only received in 1948 and marked the official admittance of women to the...

  • 6 February 1925 Textile Institute
    Textile Institute
    The Textile Institute is a unique organisation in textiles, clothing and footwear. It was incorporated in England by a Royal Charter granted in 1925 and is a registered charity...

  • 17 March 1925 British Legion
  • 12 October 1925 London Playing Fields Society
  • 12 October 1925 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
  • 16 December 1925 Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
  • 1 February 1926 University of Reading
    University of Reading
    The University of Reading is a university in the English town of Reading, Berkshire. The University was established in 1892 as University College, Reading and received its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based on several campuses in, and around, the town of Reading.The University has a long tradition...

  • 25 February 1926 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
    Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
    Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....

  • 25 February 1926 St. Hilda's College, Oxford
  • 25 February 1926 Birkbeck College
    Birkbeck, University of London
    Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...

  • 25 February 1926 Royal Medico Psychological Association
  • 30 April 1926 Somerville College, Oxford
    Somerville College, Oxford
    Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and was one of the first women's colleges to be founded there...

  • 1 June 1926 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys
  • 1 June 1926 The Mothers' Union
    Mothers' Union
    Mothers’ Union is an international Christian charity that seeks to support families worldwide. Its members are not all mothers or even all women, as there are many parents, men, widows, singles and grandparents involved in its work...

  • 28 June 1926 Royal Institute of International Affairs
  • 28 June 1926 St. Hugh's College, Oxford
  • 5 November 1926 Institute of Transport
  • 20 November 1926 British Broadcasting Corporation
  • 14 December 1926 National Police Fund
  • 22 March 1928 British Association for the Advancement of Science
    British Association for the Advancement of Science
    frame|right|"The BA" logoThe British Association for the Advancement of Science or the British Science Association, formerly known as the BA, is a learned society with the object of promoting science, directing general attention to scientific matters, and facilitating interaction between...

  • 22 March 1928 Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
  • 13 July 1928 College of Nursing
  • 14 August 1928 Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee
  • 20 November 1928 London Homeopathic Hospital (now the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
    Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
    The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine is a specialist complementary medicine hospital located in London, United Kingdom...

    )
  • 20 November 1928 National Art Collection Fund
  • 21 December 1928 Malvern College
    Malvern College
    Malvern College is a coeducational independent school located on a 250 acre campus near the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire in England. Founded on 25 January 1865, until 1992, the College was a secondary school for boys aged 13 to 18...

  • 29 January 1929 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
  • 1 March 1929 Howard Leopold Davis Scholarships Trust
  • 21 March 1929 British Engineering Standards Association
  • 10 May 1929 Indian Church Trustees
  • 10 May 1929 Institution of Gas Engineers
  • 5 July 1929 Institute of Hygiene
  • 17 December 1929 King George Hospital at Ilford

1930s

  • 20 January 1930 Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland
  • 28 March 1930 Institution of Mechanical Engineers
    Institution of Mechanical Engineers
    The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...

  • 28 July 1930 King Edwards VII's Hospital for Officers, Sister Agnes Founder
  • 28 July 1930 Honourable Company of Master Mariners
    Honourable Company of Master Mariners
    The Honourable Company of Master Mariners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1926; it was made a Livery Company by the City of London in 1932, making it the first new Livery Company to be formed in over a century...

  • 28 July 1930 Oundle School
    Oundle School
    Oundle School is a co-educational British public school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556. Oundle has eight boys' houses, five girls' houses, a day...

  • 28 July 1930 East Ham Memorial Hospital
  • 18 December 1930 Welsh National School of Medicine
  • 29 June 1931 British Postgraduate Medical School
  • 1 October 1931 Glasgow Fishmongers Company
  • 7 October 1931 Australian Chemical Institute
  • 7 October 1931 Royal Seamen's Pension Fund
  • 11 February 1932 Universities China Committee in London
  • 15 December 1932 National Playing Fields Association
    National Playing Fields Association
    The National Playing Fields Association , from 2007 rebranded as Fields in Trust , was founded in 1925 and granted a Royal Charter in 1933...

  • 16 March 1933 Institute of Marine Engineers
  • 25 May 1933 London Library
    London Library
    The London Library is the world's largest independent lending library, and the UK's leading literary institution. It is located in the City of Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom....

  • 26 June 1933 Westfield College, London
    Westfield College
    Westfield College was a small college situated in Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, London, and was a constituent college of the University of London from 1882 to 1989. The college originally admitted only women as students and became coeducational in 1964. In 1989, Westfield College merged with Queen...

  • 22 March 1934 Institution of Structural Engineers
    Institution of Structural Engineers
    The Institution of Structural Engineers is a professional body for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. It has 27,000 members in 105 countries. The Institution provides professional accreditation for structural engineers...

  • 9 November 1934 Queen Mary College
    Queen Mary, University of London
    Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

  • 20 December 1934 City of London Maternity Hospital
  • 21 February 1935 Cheltenham Ladies' College
    Cheltenham Ladies' College
    The Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.-History:The school was founded in 1853...

  • 6 June 1935 Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
  • 13 August 1935 Institution of Engineers (India)
  • 20 December 1935 Royal Academy of Dancing
  • 13 April 1937 Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
    Worshipful Company of Basketmakers
    The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was constituted in 1569. It was recognised as a Livery Company in 1825, and received a Royal Charter in 1937. The Company has recently instituted Yeoman memberships for working basketmakers and...

  • 29 July 1937 General Infirmary at Leeds
  • 24 February 1938 Institution of Engineers Australia
  • 25 November 1938 Roedean School
    Roedean School
    -Roedeanians in fiction:* Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward * Dawn Drummond-Clayton * Emily James...

  • 25 May 1939 National Association of Boy's Clubs
  • 25 July 1939 Imperial Cancer Research Fund

1940s

  • 19 September 1940 British Council
    British Council
    The British Council is a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational and cultural opportunities. It is registered as a charity both in England and Wales, and in Scotland...

  • 30 May 1941 Australian Red Cross Society
  • 26 June 1946 King's School, Canterbury
  • 26 June 1946 Worshipful Company of Carmen
    Worshipful Company of Carmen
    The Worshipful Company of Carmen is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Carmen, or drivers of carts, caused upset in 1481. The King conscripted carts to carry his wine allowing rural carters to force food prices up. By offering to provide the King's carriage and clean the streets the...

  • 10 July 1946 Arts Council of Great Britain
    Arts Council of Great Britain
    The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. The Arts Council of Great Britain was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England , the Scottish Arts Council, and the Arts Council of Wales...

  • 10 July 1946 Institute of Fuel
  • 29 January 1947 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
    The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is a professional association based in the UK. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that is, pregnancy, childbirth, and female sexual and reproductive health...

  • 10 March 1947 British Postgraduate Medical Federation
  • 28 October 1947 Scottish National War Memorial Trustees
  • 28 October 1947 Officers Families Fund
  • 9 July 1948 University of Nottingham
    University of Nottingham
    The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

  • 13 September 1948 Wye College
    Wye College
    The College of St. Gregory and St. Martin at Wye, more commonly known as Wye College, was an educational institution in Kent, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1447 by John Kempe, the Archbishop of York, as a college for the training of priests. It is located in the small village of Wye, Kent, 60...

  • 13 September 1948 Institution of Municipal Engineers
  • 25 October 1948 British and Foreign Bible Society
    British and Foreign Bible Society
    The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply as Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world....

  • 22 December 1948 Royal Aeronautical Society
    Royal Aeronautical Society
    The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.-Function:...

  • 22 December 1948 University College of the West Indies
  • 4 March 1949 National Institute for the Blind
  • 30 June 1949 University College of North Staffordshire
  • 25 November 1949 Railway Benevolent Institution

1950s

  • 31 March 1950 Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society
  • 25 April 1950 Women's Royal Naval Service Benevolent Trust
  • 25 April 1950 Standards Association of Australia
  • 9 October 1950 University College of Leicester
  • 8 December 1950 Worshipful Company of Musicians
    Worshipful Company of Musicians
    The Worshipful Company of Musicians is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Its history dates back to at least 1350. Originally a specialist guild for musicians, its role became an anachronism in the 18th century, when the centre of music making in London moved from the City to the...

  • 21 December 1950 Campbell College, Belfast
  • 1 November 1951 Ceylon Red Cross Society
  • 14 November 1951 Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
    Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
    The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion was founded in 1751 as a literary society devoted to the preservation of the Welsh language. It was founded by two brothers, Lewis Morris and Richard Morris, natives of Anglesey...

  • 24 March 1952 University of Southampton
    University of Southampton
    The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

  • 9 April 1952 School of Pharmacy, University of London
  • 29 April 1952 St. Anne's College, Oxford
  • 29 July 1952 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
  • 25 November 1952 Principal and Governors of Queen Elizabeth College
  • 4 December 1952 Royal Air Forces Association
    Royal Air Forces Association
    The Royal Air Forces Association, more often known as RAF Association, or simply RAFA, is a UK based charitable organization which provides care and support to serving and retired members of the "Royal Air Forces" and their dependents.The organisation, which was formed in 1943, receives no funding...

  • 1 April 1953 St. Antony's College, Oxford
  • 30 April 1953 Faculty of Radiologists
  • 20 January 1954 Australian Academy of Science
    Australian Academy of Science
    The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London. The first president was Sir Mark Oliphant. The Academy is modelled after the Royal Society and operates under a Royal Charter; as such it is...

  • 13 May 1954 University of Hull
    University of Hull
    The University of Hull, known informally as Hull University, is an English university, founded in 1927, located in Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire...

  • 15 July 1954 Royal Naval Association
  • 21 December 1954 Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
  • 10 February 1955 University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • 7 April 1955 Cuddesdon Theological College
  • 7 April 1955 Seafarers Education Service
  • 29 July 1955 Manchester College of Science and Technology
  • 29 July 1955 Company of Farmers of the City of London
  • 29 July 1955 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
  • 28 October 1955 University of Exeter
    University of Exeter
    The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

  • 9 October 1956 Royal Ballet
  • 15 February 1957 St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
  • 22 February 1957 Institution of Chemical Engineers
    Institution of Chemical Engineers
    The Institution of Chemical Engineers is a global professional engineering institution with over 33,000 members in over 120 countries worldwide, founded in 1922, and awarded a Royal Charter in 1957.-Structure:...

  • 15 March 1957 University of Leicester
    University of Leicester
    The University of Leicester is a research-led university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College....

  • 17 May 1957 City of London Solicitors' Company
    City of London Solicitors' Company
    The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned...

  • 23 August 1957 English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
  • 19 February 1958 British Institute of Radiology
  • 14 March 1958 Nuffield College, Oxford
    Nuffield College, Oxford
    Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is an all-graduate college and primarily a research establishment, specialising in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. It is a research centre in the social sciences...

  • 21 November 1958 Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants
  • 19 December 1958 Royal Humane Society
    Royal Humane Society
    The Royal Humane Society is a British charity which promotes lifesaving intervention. It was founded in England in 1774 as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, for the purpose of rendering first aid in cases of near drowning....

  • 15 June 1959 Town Planning Institute
  • 21 December 1959 Fourah Bay College - The University College of Sierra Leone

1960s

  • 8 April 1960 National Army Museum
    National Army Museum
    The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, England adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the "Chelsea Pensioners". The National Army Museum is open to the public every day of the year from 10.00am to 5.30pm,...

  • 3 August 1960 Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College, Cambridge
    Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...

  • 26 October 1960 Westcott House, Cambridge
    Westcott House, Cambridge
    Westcott House is a Church of England theological college based in Jesus Lane located in the centre of the university city of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.Its main activity is training people for ordained ministry in Anglican churches...

  • 2 August 1961 University of Sussex
    University of Sussex
    The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

  • 24 October 1961 Royal Archaeological Institute
    Royal Archaeological Institute
    The Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland is a learned society, established in 1844, primarily devoted to the publication of the Archaeological Journal, a production of archaeological news that has been in print since 1844....

  • 24 October 1961 St. Peter's College, Oxford
  • 6 December 1961 University of Keele
    Keele University
    Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...

  • 21 December 1961 Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
    Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
    The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters is the professional body representing loss adjusters in the United Kingdom and overseas....

  • 26 February 1962 University of the West Indies
    University of the West Indies
    The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...

  • 2 October 1962 Magistrates Association
  • 28 November 1962 Library Association of Australia
  • 26 March 1963 Society of Dyers and Colourists
    Society of Dyers and Colourists
    The Society of Dyers and Colourists is an international professional society, with headquarters in Bradford, United Kingdom, specializing in colour in all its manifestations. Founded in 1884, it was granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1963...

  • 2 May 1963 Royal Society of St. George
  • 30 May 1963 Association of Commonwealth Universities
    Association of Commonwealth Universities
    The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents over 480 universities from Commonwealth countries.- History :In 1912, the University of London took the initiative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire...

  • 29 July 1963 University of York
    University of York
    The University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects...

  • 29 July 1963 St. Catherine's College, Oxford
  • 29 July 1963 Animal Health Trust
    Animal Health Trust
    The Animal Health Trust is a veterinary charity in the United Kingdom dedicated to improving the health and welfare of horses, dogs, and cats. It was founded in 1942 and was awarded a Royal Charter on 29 July 1963...

  • 27 November 1963 University of East Anglia
    University of East Anglia
    The University of East Anglia is a public research university based in Norwich, United Kingdom. It was established in 1963, and is a founder-member of the 1994 Group of research-intensive universities.-History:...

  • 27 November 1963 University of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland
  • 26 March 1964 Institution of Production Engineers
  • 23 June 1964 University of Strathclyde
    University of Strathclyde
    The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...

  • 23 June 1964 Liverpool Medical Institution
    Liverpool Medical Institution
    Liverpool Medical Institution stands on the corner of Mount Pleasant and Hope Street, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The building opened in 1837 and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.-History:...

  • 27 July 1964 University of Lancaster
    Lancaster University
    Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

  • 20 November 1964 University of Kent at Canterbury
    University of Kent
    The University of Kent, previously the University of Kent at Canterbury, is a public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom...

  • 20 November 1964 University of Essex
    University of Essex
    The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

  • 29 January 1965 University of Warwick
    University of Warwick
    The University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...

  • 26 February 1965 Science Research Council
  • 26 February 1965 British Psychological Society
    British Psychological Society
    The British Psychological Society is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom. The BPS is also a Registered Charity and, along with advantages, this also imposes certain constraints on what the society can and cannot do...

  • 4 May 1965 Natural Environment Research Council
    Natural Environment Research Council
    The Natural Environment Research Council is a British research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences.-History:...

  • 3 August 1965 London Mathematical Society
    London Mathematical Society
    -See also:* American Mathematical Society* Edinburgh Mathematical Society* European Mathematical Society* List of Mathematical Societies* Council for the Mathematical Sciences* BCS-FACS Specialist Group-External links:* * *...

  • 29 October 1965 Social Science Research Council
    Social Science Research Council
    The Social Science Research Council is a U.S.-based independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines...

  • 31 January 1966 Heriot-Watt University
    Heriot-Watt University
    Heriot-Watt University is a university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The name commemorates George Heriot, the 16th century financier to King James, and James Watt, the great 18th century inventor and engineer....

  • 24 February 1966 Loughborough University of Technology
  • 10 March 1966 University of Aston in Birmingham
    Aston University
    Aston University is a "plate glass" campus university situated at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England.Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, Aston was granted its Royal Charter as Aston University on 22 April 1966...

  • 6 April 1966 City University, London
    City University, London
    City University London , is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute and became a university in 1966, when it adopted its present name....

  • 9 June 1966 Brunel University
    Brunel University
    Brunel University is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. The university is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel....

  • 28 July 1966 University of Surrey
    University of Surrey
    The University of Surrey is a university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey in the South East of England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was previously situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology...

  • 28 July 1966 Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
    Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
    Fitzwilliam College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England.The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer students from less financially privileged backgrounds a chance to study...

  • 20 September 1966 University of Bradford
    University of Bradford
    The University of Bradford is a British university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The University received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th University to be created in Britain, but its origins date back to the early 1800s...

  • 20 September 1966 Bath University of Technology
  • 10 February 1967 University of Salford
    University of Salford
    The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...

  • 28 June 1967 University of Dundee
    University of Dundee
    The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....

  • 28 July 1967 Royal College of Art
    Royal College of Art
    The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

  • 23 August 1967 Australian Boy Scouts Association
  • 10 October 1967 Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, Australia
  • 13 November 1967 University of Stirling
    University of Stirling
    The University of Stirling is a campus university founded by Royal charter in 1967, on the Airthrey Estate in Stirling, Scotland.-History and campus development:...

  • 13 November 1967 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology
  • 22 March 1968 Royal African Society
  • 1969 Royal Hong Kong Police, reverted to Hong Kong Police after Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong
  • 23 April 1969 Open University
    Open University
    The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...

  • 25 June 1969 Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts
  • -July 1969 Australian Institute of Building
    Australian Institute of Building
    The Australian Institute of Building is a professional society founded in 1951, incorporated in 1955 and granted a Royal Charter in 1969. It has chapter offices in Hong Kong and Singapore and had a chapter office in New Zealand until the formation of the New Zealand Institute of Building in...

  • 28 November 1969 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
  • 28 November 1969 Cranfield Institute of Technology
  • 19 December 1969 Royal College of Pathologists
    Royal College of Pathologists
    The Royal College of Pathologists, founded in 1962, was established to co-ordinate this development and maintain the internationally renowned standards and reputation of British pathology. Today the College advises on a vast range of issues relating to pathology...


1970s

  • 4 February 1970 Jockey Club
    Jockey Club
    The Jockey Club is the largest commercial organisation in British horseracing. Although no longer responsible for the governance and regulation of the sport, it owns 14 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree, Cheltenham and Newmarket, amongst other concerns such as the National Stud and...

     (incorporating the National Hunt Committee)
  • 4 February 1970 University of the South Pacific
    University of the South Pacific
    The University of the South Pacific is a public university with a number of locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. It is an international centre for teaching and research on Pacific culture and environment. USP's academic programmes are recognised worldwide, attracting students...

  • 28 July 1970 New University of Ulster
  • 30 September 1970 Institute of Physics
    Institute of Physics
    The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....

  • 11 March 1971 Heythrop College
    Heythrop College
    Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology, as well as research in related fields.It was founded...

  • 22 December 1971 Chelsea College, University of London
  • 22 December 1971 Sports Council
  • 22 December 1971 Scottish Sports Council
  • 22 December 1971 Sports Council for Wales
  • 28 June 1972 New Hall, Cambridge
    New Hall, Cambridge
    Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It was founded as "New Hall" in 1954, at a time when Cambridge had the lowest proportion of women undergraduates of any university in the United Kingdom, and when only two other colleges admitted women...

  • 23 October 1972 Royal College of General Practitioners
    Royal College of General Practitioners
    The Royal College of General Practitioners is the professional body for general practitioners in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including licensing, education, training, research and clinical standards. It is the largest of the medical royal colleges, with...

  • 24 October 1973 Anglo-German Foundation for the study of Industrial Society
  • 16 October 1974 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
    Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
    Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the global body for professional accountants offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification . it is one of the largest and fastest-growing global accountancy bodies with 147,000 members and 424,000 students in 170...

     (ACCA)
  • 12 February 1975 Institute of Cost and Management Accountants
  • 12 February 1975 Institution of Metallurgists
  • 18 March 1975 Institute of Measurement and Control
    Institute of Measurement and Control
    The Institute of Measurement and Control is a British learned society. It began in the 1940s as the Society of Instrument Technology. It is a licensed member of Engineering Council UK, registering candidates as chartered engineers, incorporated engineers and engineering technicians.- References...

  • 12 November 1975 College of Law
    The College of Law
    The College of Law of England and Wales is a private educational institution in England and a registered charity which provides legal education for students and professionals.-20th century:...

  • 17 March 1976 Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers under title of "Chartered Institution of Building Services"
  • 19 May 1976 Design Council
    Design Council
    The Design Council is a United Kingdom non-departmental public body incorporated by Royal Charter and registered as a charity.Registered charity number 272099.- In the beginning :The Design Council started in 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design...

  • 19 May 1976 Society of Industrial Artists and Designers
  • 9 June 1976 Darwin College, Cambridge
    Darwin College, Cambridge
    Darwin College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Founded in 1964, Darwin was Cambridge University's first graduate-only college, and also the first to admit both men and women. The college is named after the family of one of the university's most famous graduates, Charles Darwin...

  • 15 September 1976 Institute of Bankers in Scotland
  • 27 October 1976 Wolfson College, Cambridge
    Wolfson College, Cambridge
    Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Wolfson is one of a small number of Cambridge colleges which admit only students over the age of 21. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates, with around 15% studying undergraduate...

  • 15 November 1977 University College London
    University College London
    University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

  • 25 April 1978 Carnegie Trustees for the Universities of Scotland (new)
  • 6 February 1979 Institute of Arbitrators
  • 14 March 1979 Building Societies Institute
  • 14 March 1979 Institute of Biology
    Institute of Biology
    The Institute of Biology was a professional body for biologists, primarily those working in the United Kingdom. The Institute was founded in 1950 by the Biological Council: the then umbrella body for Britain's many learned biological societies...


1980s

  • 13 February 1980 King's College London
    King's College London
    King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

  • 19 March 1980 Royal Society of Chemistry
    Royal Society of Chemistry
    The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...

     (amalgamation between Royal Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Society)
  • 28 July 1980 Chartered Institute of Building
    Chartered Institute of Building
    The Chartered Institute of Building is a body that represents professionals who work within the built environment in the United Kingdom.- History :...

  • 18 February 1981 Wolfson College, Oxford
    Wolfson College, Oxford
    Wolfson College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Located in north Oxford along the River Cherwell, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows. It caters to a wide range of...

  • 28 October 1981 Engineering Council
  • 10 February 1982 Institute of Foresters
  • 11 February 1983 University of Buckingham
    University of Buckingham
    The University of Buckingham is an independent, non-sectarian, research and teaching university located in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England, on the banks of the River Great Ouse. It was originally founded as Buckingham University College in the 1970s and received its Royal Charter from the...

  • 22 June 1983 British Film Institute
    British Film Institute
    The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...

  • 18 May 1983 Crafts Council
    Crafts Council
    The Crafts Council was established in the United Kingdom in 1971 as the national agency for crafts and was granted a Royal Charter in 1982. The Crafts Council’s vision is to position the UK as the global centre for the making, seeing and collecting of contemporary craft...

  • 20 April 1984 Fellowship of Engineering
  • 11 April 1984 Industrial Society
    Industrial society
    In sociology, industrial society refers to a society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the west in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution, and replaced...

  • 25 June 1984 Institute of Housing
  • 25 June 1984 Institution of Environmental Health Officers
  • 31 July 1984 University of Ulster
    University of Ulster
    The University of Ulster is a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Northern Ireland. It is the largest single university in Ireland, discounting the federal National University of Ireland...

  • 31 July 1984 British Computer Society
    British Computer Society
    The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...

  • 12 September 1984 Clare Hall, Cambridge
    Clare Hall, Cambridge
    Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students.Informality is a defining value at Clare Hall and this contributes to its unique character...

  • 30 October 1984 Robinson College, Cambridge
    Robinson College, Cambridge
    Robinson College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.Robinson is the newest of the Cambridge colleges, and is unique in being the only one to have been intended, from its inception, for both undergraduate and graduate students of either sex.- History :The college was founded...

  • 5 June 1986 Linacre College, Oxford
    Linacre College, Oxford
    Linacre College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the UK, currently offering graduate entry only. It is located on St Cross Road at the corner of St Cross Road and South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by...

  • 8 July 1986 London Graduate School of Business Studies
  • 10 February 1987 Institute of Bankers
    Institute of Bankers
    The ifs School of Finance, founded in 1879 as the Institute of Bankers, is a registered educational charity incorporated by Royal Charter...

  • 10 June 1987 University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

     Institute of Education
    Institute of Education
    The Institute of Education is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialised in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It is the largest education research body in the United Kingdom, with...

  • 23 March 1988 College of Ophthalmologists
  • 27 April 1988 Motability
    Motability
    Motability is a United Kingdom scheme which enables disabled people to obtain a car, powered wheelchair or scooter by using their Government-funded mobility allowances....

  • 7 February 1989 Chartered Institute of Marketing
  • 2 August 1989 Queen Mary and Westfield College
    Queen Mary, University of London
    Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

  • 19 December 1989 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind
  • 1 November 1989 Goldsmiths College, University of London

1990s

  • 7 June 1990 The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
    Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
    The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics ....

  • 26 June 1990 Royal Star and Garter Home
  • 21 May 1991 The Henley Management College
  • 11 February 1992 Royal College of Anaesthetists
    Royal College of Anaesthetists
    The Royal College of Anaesthetists is "the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom". It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physician assistants - and practising critical care...

  • 15 July 1992 The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
    Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
    The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply is a global organisation working for the purchasing and supply professions. CIPS is the world’s largest procurement and supply professional organisation. It is the worldwide centre of excellence on purchasing and supply management issues...

  • 16 December 1993 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is a UK Research Council and NDPB and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience...

  • 16 December 1993 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences , mainly to universities in the United Kingdom...

  • 16 December 1993 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
    Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
    The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council was one of a number of Research Councils in the United Kingdom. It directed, coordinated and funded research in particle physics and astronomy for the people of the UK...

  • 8 February 1994 Arts Council of England
  • 8 February 1994 Scottish Arts Council
    Scottish Arts Council
    The Scottish Arts Council is a Scottish public body that distributes funding from the Scottish Government, and is the leading national organisation for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland...

  • 8 February 1994 Arts Council of Wales
    Arts Council of Wales
    The Arts Council of Wales is a Welsh Government sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.Established by Royal Charter in 1946, as the Welsh Arts Council , when it merged with the three Welsh regional arts associations...

  • 15 March 1994 The Chartered Institute of Taxation
    The Chartered Institute of Taxation
    The Chartered Institute of Taxation is a registered charity and the leading professional body in the United Kingdom concerned solely with taxation. The CIOT deals with all aspects of direct and indirect taxation.-Activities:...

  • 14 December 1994 Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
    Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
    The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management is an independent professional body and a registered charity, advancing the science and practice of water and environmental management for a clean, green and sustainable world....

  • 14 December 1994 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
    Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
    The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils was a UK government body that carried out civil research in science and engineering.- Activities :...

  • 11 April 1995 Mansfield College, Oxford
    Mansfield College, Oxford
    Mansfield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Of the colleges that accept both undergraduate and graduate students Mansfield College is one of the smallest, comprising approximately 210 undergraduates, 130 graduates, 35 visiting students and 50...

  • 11 April 1995 Templeton College, Oxford
    Templeton College, Oxford
    Templeton College was one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, England. It was an all-graduate college, concentrating on the recruitment of students in business and management studies....

  • 28 June 1995 The College of Optometrists
    College of Optometrists
    The College of Optometrists is the professional, scientific and examining body for optometry in the United Kingdom, working for the public benefit.-History:...

  • 23 November 1995 Manchester College, Oxford
  • 13 March 1996 York
    York
    York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

     Borough Council
  • 13 March 1996 Cardiff County Council (?)
  • 26 June 1996 Sedgefield
    Sedgefield
    Sedgefield is a small town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It has a population of 4,534.Sedgefield has attracted particular attention as the Member of Parliament for the wider Sedgefield constituency was the former Prime Minister Tony Blair; he was the area's MP from 1983 to 2008,...

     Borough Council
  • 23 July 1996 North East Lincolnshire
    North East Lincolnshire
    North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire...

     Borough Council
  • 23 July 1996 Sport England
    Sport England
    Sport England is the brand name for the English Sports Council and is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...

  • 23 July 1996 UK Sport
    UK Sport
    UK Sport is the UK Government's organisation for directing the development of sport within the home countries.-History:The Sports Council previously had been formed in 1972, and had the motto Sport for All. There was also the Central Council of Physical Recreation. In July 1994 it was decided to...

  • 23 July 1996 College Paediatrics and Child Health
  • 26 June 1997 Landscape Institute
    Landscape Institute
    The Landscape Institute is a British professional body for landscape architects. Founded in 1929 as the Institute of Landscape Architects, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1997. The Institute aims to promote landscape architecture, and to regulate the profession with a code of conduct that...

  • 22 July 1997 Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
    Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
    Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is a women-only college, which admits only postgraduates and undergraduates aged 21 or over....

  • 22 July 1997 Brighton and Hove Borough Council
  • 11 February 1998 Medway
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     Borough Council
  • 11 February 1998 Historic Royal Palaces
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  • 22 April 1998 St Edmund's College, Cambridge
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  • 15 October 1998 North Lincolnshire
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  • 12 October 1999 The Prince's Trust
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  • 24 November 1999 Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund

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  • 8 February 2000 Institute of Personnel and Development
  • 12 July 2000 The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
  • 11 April 2001 Institution of Incorporated Engineers
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  • 11 December 2001 Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
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    The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management is the leading membership organisation for professionals in the Waste Management Industry in the United Kingdom and overseas....

  • 12 February 2002 Chartered Management Institute
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  • 12 February 2002 Telford and the Wrekin Borough Council
  • 26 June 2002 Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
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  • 12 June 2003 The Science Council
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    The was established by Royal Charter in 2003. The principal activity of The Science Council is the promotion of the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in science pure and applied, for the public benefit....

  • 15 December 2003 Thames Valley University
    Thames Valley University
    The University of West London is a public university based in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in Ealing and Brentford, London, and Reading, Berkshire....

  • 11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Engineers
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    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...

  • 11 February 2004 The Worshipful Company of Paviors
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  • 8 May 2004 Society for the Environment
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    The Society for the Environment is an umbrella body that can license its member institutions to confer chartered status on sustainability and environmental professionals worldwide...

  • 27 July 2004 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
  • 13 October 2004 Association for Science Education
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  • 22 July 2005 Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
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