Chronology

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1880

Theatre paper 'The Stage' is published for the first time on the 1st February.

1880

James Figgins is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1881

Richard William Starkey is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1882

Joseph Johnson Miles is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1883

John Miles is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1883

The position of Treasurership, as a salaried position, is abolished.

1884

Charles Layton is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1885

Edmund Waller is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1885

The east wing of the Hall is re-shaped and partially rebuilt for just over £7,000, restoring the old panelling

1886

Thomas Curson Hansard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1887

Venison Feast abolished: Also know as the Election Feast, this was to celebrate the election of the Master and Wardens on St Peter's Day. It was originally provided for by the Renter Wardens.

1888

The first Financial Times, originally titled London Financial Guide, is published on 10 January.

1888

The Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue opens on the 17 December with a production of Alfred Cellier's Dorothy.

1888

Thomas Curson Hansard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1889

James George Alexander is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1890

James Evan Adlard and Joseph Greenhill are elected Master of Stationers' Company.

Stationers School, Hornsey, 1982

1891

Stationers' School moves to Hornsey.

1891

George Singer is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1892

Thomas Curson Hansard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1892

The Bibliographical Society is founded. The Society holds its library at Stationers' Hall until it moves to Senate House in January 2007.

1893

(Baronet) Sir George Robert Tyler, the Master of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London. He is re-elected Master the following year as well as Joshua Whitehead Butterworth.

1895

Henry Sotheran is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1896

William Richard Stephens is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1897

Charles John Clay is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1898

William Rider is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1899

Joseph Hunt is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1900

James William Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1900

(Baronet) Sir Frank Green, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.

1901

Edward VII becomes King.

1901

The Company Treasurer becomes a key member of the Court.

1901

Sir George Wyatt Truscott is elected Master of Stationers' Company. He is elected Lord Mayor of London in 1908.

1902

Edward VII is crowned King on 9 August.

1902

Matthew Thomas Roe and John Milles are elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1903

Sir Thomas Vezey Strong is elected Master of Stationers' Company. He is elected Lord Mayor of London in 1910.

Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

1903

The Daily Mirror is founded by Alfred Harmsworth.

1904

George North Cox is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1905

John Ion is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1906

Richard Stevens is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1907

Henry Hill Hodgson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1907

The task of the Company's (but not the English Stock's) annual accounts is handed over to the treasurer; it was previously the responsibility of the Under Warden.

1908

Edward Webster Cox is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1909

William Charles Knight is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1910

George Chater is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1910

George V becomes King.

1911

George V is crowned King on 22 June.

1911

"The 1911 Act abolished the need for registration at the Stationers' Hall and provided that copyright is established upon the creation of a work. However, as the 1911 Act come into effect at different times in different countries of the Commonwealth, registration at Stationers' Hall continued to be required in some Commonwealth countries after 1911. The Act also stated that copyright arose in the act of creation, not the act of publishing."

1911

Daniel Greenaway is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1912

George Edward Briscoe is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1913

Henry Hill is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1914

Henry Good is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1915

Herbert Jameson Waterlow is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1915

Lord Wakefield, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected the 587th Lord Mayor of London.

1916

Reginald Thurston Rivington is appointed Clerk to Stationers' Company.

1916

The Company gives records of their registers from 1842 onwards to the Public Record Office.

1916

Edward Hanslope Cox is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1917

Horace Brooks Marshall is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1918

John Bruce Nichols is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

Horace Brooks Marshall 1918

1918

Lord Marshall, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected the 590th Lord Mayor of London.

1919

Edwin James Layton is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1920

A livery committee is formed to allow liverymen to take more of a role in the affairs of the Company.

1920

R. A. Austen-Leigh becomes Chairman of the Livery Committee.

1921

Sir John James Baddeley, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected the 593rd Lord Mayor of London.

1921

The Royal Literary Fund's office is permitted to base itself at Stationers' Hall.

1921

Charles Robert Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1922

Herbet Fitch is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1923

Edward Pinney Vacher is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1923

Registration under the Copyright Act of 1911 ends in December and the Company registers are closed.

1924

The Company creates a register for books and fine arts, as proof of copyright ownership and as a form of record.

1924

Richard Bentley is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1925

Frederick Harris Miles is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1925

Ironmongers' Hall re-opens in a Tudor style after being destroyed by a bomb in 1917 during the First World War.

1926

Lord Ebbisham, Master of Stationers' Company, is elected the 598th Lord Mayor of London.

1927

G de L'E Duckworth is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.

1927

Arthur William Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1928

Cecil Reeves Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company.

1929

Sir William Alfred Waterlow, Master of Stationers' Company, is elected the 601st Lord Mayor of London.

1929

H. A. Cox is appointed Chairman of the Livery Committee.

1930

Edgar Erat Harrison is elected Master of Stationers' Company